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No man likes to be surpassed by those of his own level.

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Truth, they say, is but too often in difficulties, but is never finally suppressed.
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Difficult Hide Lost Truth
Envy, like flames, soars upwards.
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Deep Fire Flame One Liner
Nothing is so uncertain or unpredictable as the feelings of a crowd.
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Feeling People Uncertain
In difficult and desperate cases, the boldest counsels are the safest.
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Bold Choice Difficult Hard Time Safety
Men are only clever at shifting blame from their own shoulders to those of others.
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Blame Clever Man People Smart
In grave difficulties, and with little hope, the boldest measures are the safest.
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Bold Difficult Hope Safety
From abundance springs safety.
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Material Safety Spring Wealth
Never is work without reward, or reward without work.
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Inspirational Reward Success Work
Treachery, though at first very cautious, in the end betrays itself.
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Betray End Fake Trust
Resistance to criminal rashness comes better late than never.
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Better Crime Resistance
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
It is when fortune is the most propitious that she is least to be trusted.
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Fortune Herself Money Trust Wealth
Many things complicated by nature are restored by reason.
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Complication Man Nature Reason
No wickedness proceeds on any grounds of reason.
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Cruelty Place Reason
Luck rules every human endeavor, especially war.
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Human Luck Rule War
War is just to those to whom war is necessary.
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Choice Necessary War

No man likes to be surpassed by those of his own level.

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