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Friendships ought to be immortal, hostilities mortal.

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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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Better God Hands Hope Peace Power Safety Victory
He is truly a man who will not permit himself to be unduly elated when fortune’s breeze is favorable, or cast down when it is adverse.
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Adversity Fortune Himself Man True
Bad beginnings, bad endings.
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Bad Beginning End One Liner
There is nothing worse than being ashamed of parsimony or poverty.
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Money Poor Poverty Shame Worst
Nothing is so uncertain or unpredictable as the feelings of a crowd.
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Feeling People Uncertain
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
Nothing moves more quickly than scandal.
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Abuse Quick
Truth is often eclipsed but never extinguished.
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Death End Hide Truth
It is easier to criticize than to correct our past errors.
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Blame Easy Mistake Ourselves Past
Envy is blind, and is only clever in depreciating the virtues of others.
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Blind Eyes Jealous Smart Virtue
War is just to those for whom it is necessary, and arms are clear of impiety for those who have no hope left but in arms.
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Hope Necessary War Weapon
Adversity makes men remember God.
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Adversity God Hard Time Man One Liner Remember
From abundance springs safety.
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Material Safety Spring Wealth
The populace is like the sea motionless in itself, but stirred by every wind, even the lightest breeze.
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Light Move Sea Wind
Dignity is a matter which concerns only mankind.
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Animal Deep Dignity Kind Man
There is nothing that is more often clothed in an attractive garb than a false creed.
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Appearance Attraction Deep Fake Wisdom
No law is sufficiently convenient to all.
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Enough Law People
A woman’s mind is affected by the meanest gifts.
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Gift Mindset Woman
The real power behind whatever success I have now was something I found within myself – something that’s in all of us, I think, a little piece of God just waiting to be discovered.
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Discover God Independent Myself Pieces Power Reality Success Thinking Wait
Prosperity engenders sloth.
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One Liner Prosperity
The most honorable, as well as the safest course, is to rely entirely upon valour.
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Honor Journey Path Safety
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
The result showed that fortune helps the brave.
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Brave Fortune Help Inspirational Result
Temerity is not always successful.
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Chance Failure One Liner Success
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
Nowhere are our calculations more frequently upset than in war.
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Ourselves Place Upset War
The troubles which have come upon us always seem more serious than those which are only threatening.
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Scare Serious Trouble

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