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There is an old saying which, from its truth, has become proverbial, that friendships should be immortal, enmities mortal.

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No wickedness proceeds on any grounds of reason.
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Cruelty Place Reason
Friends should be judged by their acts, not their words.
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Act Friendship Judgement Word
Dignity is a matter which concerns only mankind.
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Animal Deep Dignity Kind Man
Truth, they say, is but too often in difficulties, but is never finally suppressed.
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Difficult Hide Lost Truth
When Tarquin the Proud was asked what was the best mode of governing a conquered city, he replied only by beating down with his staff all the tallest poppies in his garden.
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Best Garden Government Rule Talk
Those ills are easiest to bear with which we are most familiar.
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Easy Known Sick
Events of great consequence often spring from trifling circumstances.
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Event Greatness Spring
Truth is often eclipsed but never extinguished.
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Death End Hide Truth
Nowhere are our calculations more frequently upset than in war.
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Ourselves Place Upset War
He will have true glory who despises it.
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Glory Hate Himself Willing
It is when fortune is the most propitious that she is least to be trusted.
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Fortune Herself Money Trust Wealth
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
Wit is the flower of the imagination.
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Flower Imagination
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
No crime can ever be defended on rational grounds.
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Crime Justice Law Legal Protection
An honor prudently declined often returns with increased luster.
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Honor Peace Respect Return

There is an old saying which, from its truth, has become proverbial, that friendships should be immortal, enmities mortal.

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There is an old saying which, from its truth, has become proverbial, that friendships should be immortal, enmities mortal.

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