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Prosperity engenders sloth.

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Valor is the soldier’s adornment.
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Jewel One Liner Soldier War
That business does not prosper which you transact with the eyes of others.
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Business Eyes People Prosperity
No law is sufficiently convenient to all.
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Enough Law People
Adversity makes men remember God.
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Adversity God Hard Time Man One Liner Remember
All things will be clear and distinct to the man who does not hurry; haste is blind and improvident.
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Blind Clear Hurry Man
A fraudulent intent, however carefully concealed at the outset, will generally, in the end, betray itself.
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Betray Care End Fake Trust
Better and safer is an assured peace than a victory hoped for. The one is in your own power, the other is in the hands of the gods.
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Better God Hands Hope Peace Power Safety Victory
Envy, like flames, soars upwards.
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Deep Fire Flame One Liner
Resistance to criminal rashness comes better late than never.
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Better Crime Resistance
Men are seldom blessed with good fortune and good sense at the same time.
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Blessing Funny Goodness Man Money Time
We survive on adversity and perish in ease and comfort.
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Adversity Comfortable Human Survive
Avarice and luxury, those evils which have been the ruin of every great state.
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Evil Luxury Nation Ruin
The populace is like the sea motionless in itself, but stirred by every wind, even the lightest breeze.
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Light Move Sea Wind
Men’s minds are too ready to excuse guilt in themselves.
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Guilty Men Mindset
The old Romans all wished to have a king over them because they had not yet tasted the sweetness of freedom.
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Democracy Freedom People Prison Taste
Truth, they say, is but too often in difficulties, but is never finally suppressed.
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Difficult Hide Lost Truth

Prosperity engenders sloth.

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