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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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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
Prosperity engenders sloth.
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One Liner Prosperity
A certain peace is better and safer than a victory in prospect; the former is at your own disposal, the latter depends upon the gods.
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Better God Peace Safety Victory
It is when fortune is the most propitious that she is least to be trusted.
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Fortune Herself Money Trust Wealth
Great contests generally excite great animosities.
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Event Excitement Greatness
Those ills are easiest to bear with which we are most familiar.
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Easy Known Sick
Valor is the soldier’s adornment.
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Jewel One Liner Soldier War
Envy, like flames, soars upwards.
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Deep Fire Flame One Liner
Luck rules every human endeavor, especially war.
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Human Luck Rule War
Many things complicated by nature are restored by reason.
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Complication Man Nature Reason
The name of freedom regained is sweet to hear.
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Freedom Listening Sweet
In grave difficulties, and with little hope, the boldest measures are the safest.
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Bold Difficult Hope Safety
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
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
A gentleman is mindful no less of the freedom of others than of his own dignity.
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Dignity Freedom Man Mindset
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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