Toil and pleasure, dissimilar in nature, are nevertheless united by a certain natural bond.
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Temerity is not always successful.
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Toil and pleasure, dissimilar in nature, are nevertheless united by a certain natural bond.
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Great contests generally excite great animosities.
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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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Those ills are easiest to bear with which we are most familiar.
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Persevere in virtue and diligence.
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Resistance to criminal rashness comes better late than never.
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It is easier to criticize than to correct our past errors.
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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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In adversity assume the countenance of prosperity, and in prosperity moderate the temper and desires.
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Truth is often eclipsed but never extinguished.
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I have often heard that the outstanding man is he who thinks deeply about a problem, and the next is he who listens carefully to advice.
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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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In grave difficulties, and with little hope, the boldest measures are the safest.
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Friends should be judged by their acts, not their words.
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Envy is blind, and is only clever in depreciating the virtues of others.
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A fraudulent intent, however carefully concealed at the outset, will generally, in the end, betray itself.
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