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Many things complicated by nature are restored by reason.
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Complication Man Nature Reason
Envy, like flames, soars upwards.
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Deep Fire Flame One Liner
Many difficulties which nature throws in our way, may be smoothed away by the exercise of intelligence.
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Difficult Intelligence Nature Ourselves Way
The sun has not yet set for all time.
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Beginning Hope One Liner Sun Time
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
No one wants to be excelled by his relatives.
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Excellence Family Himself
Toil and pleasure, dissimilar in nature, are nevertheless united by a certain natural bond.
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Bond Nature Relationship Unity
There is nothing worse than being ashamed of parsimony or poverty.
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Money Poor Poverty Shame Worst
Nowhere are our calculations more frequently upset than in war.
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Ourselves Place Upset War
No law is quite appropriate for all.
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Law One Liner Quite Right
Law is a thing which is insensible, and inexorable, more beneficial and more profitious to the weak than to the strong; it admits of no mitigation nor pardon, once you have overstepped its limits.
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Law Limitation Strong Weakness
Nothing moves more quickly than scandal.
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Abuse Quick
Dignity is a matter which concerns only mankind.
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Animal Deep Dignity Kind Man
This was the Athenians’ war against the King of Macedon, a war of words. Words are the only weapons the Athenians have left.
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Leaving War Weapon Word
Avarice and luxury, those evils which have been the ruin of every great state.
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Evil Luxury Nation Ruin
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

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