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All things will be clear and distinct to the man who does not hurry; haste is blind and improvident.

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The sun has not yet set for all time.
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Beginning Hope One Liner Sun Time
Greater is our terror of the unknown.
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Greatness One Liner Ourselves Terrorism
He will have true glory who despises it.
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Glory Hate Himself Willing
Temerity is not always successful.
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Chance Failure One Liner Success
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
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
Shared danger is the strongest of bonds; it will keep men united in spite of mutual dislike and suspicion.
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Bond Dangerous Hate Man Strong
The troubles which have come upon us always seem more serious than those which are only threatening.
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Scare Serious Trouble
We can endure neither our vices nor their cure.
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Endurance Ourselves Vice
There is an old saying which, from its truth, has become proverbial, that friendships should be immortal, enmities mortal.
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Enemy Friendship Immortal Truth
A gentleman is mindful no less of the freedom of others than of his own dignity.
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Dignity Freedom Man Mindset
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
Bad beginnings, bad endings.
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Bad Beginning End One Liner
No one wants to be excelled by his relatives.
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Excellence Family Himself
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
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
The less there is of fear, the less there is of danger.
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Danger Fear Safety Security
Truth is often eclipsed but never extinguished.
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Death End Hide Truth
No law can possibly meet the convenience of every one: we must be satisfied if it be beneficial on the whole and to the majority.
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Law Oneself Possible Satisfaction
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
Nothing hurts worse than the loss of money.
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Hurt Loss Money Pain Wealth
Envy, like flames, soars upwards.
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Deep Fire Flame One Liner
It is when fortune is the most propitious that she is least to be trusted.
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Fortune Herself Money Trust Wealth
Men are only clever at shifting blame from their own shoulders to those of others.
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Blame Clever Man People Smart
The mind sins, not the body; if there is no intention, there is no blame.
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Blame Body Intention Mindset Sin
Great contests generally excite great animosities.
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Event Excitement Greatness
Nothing is so uncertain or unpredictable as the feelings of a crowd.
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Feeling People Uncertain

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