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The populace is like the sea motionless in itself, but stirred by every wind, even the lightest breeze.

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It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity.
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Excellence Maturity Time
Those ills are easiest to bear with which we are most familiar.
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Easy Known Sick
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
Under the influence of fear, which always leads men to take a pessimistic view of things, they magnified their enemies’ resources, and minimized their own.
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Enemy Fear Leadership Man View
No crime can ever be defended on rational grounds.
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Crime Justice Law Legal Protection
Avarice and luxury, those evils which have been the ruin of every great state.
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Evil Luxury Nation Ruin
This above all makes history useful and desirable; it unfolds before our eyes a glorious record of exemplary actions.
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Action Desire Eyes Glory History
Adversity makes men remember God.
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Adversity God Hard Time Man One Liner Remember
This above all makes history useful and desirable; it unfolds before our eyes a glorious record of exemplary actions.
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Action Desire Eyes Glory History
Dignity is a matter which concerns only mankind.
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Animal Deep Dignity Kind 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
There is nothing worse than being ashamed of parsimony or poverty.
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Money Poor Poverty Shame Worst
Envy is blind, and is only clever in depreciating the virtues of others.
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Blind Eyes Jealous Smart Virtue
We can endure neither our vices nor their cure.
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Endurance Ourselves Vice
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
Greater is our terror of the unknown.
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Greatness One Liner Ourselves Terrorism

The populace is like the sea motionless in itself, but stirred by every wind, even the lightest breeze.

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