Prosperity engenders sloth.
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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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Prosperity engenders sloth.
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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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No law is sufficiently convenient to all.
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No crime can ever be defended on rational grounds.
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Friends should be judged by their acts, not their words.
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Greater is our terror of the unknown.
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He will have true glory who despises it.
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A woman’s mind is affected by the meanest gifts.
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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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There is always more spirit in attack than in defence.
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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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Men are only clever at shifting blame from their own shoulders to those of others.
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No one wants to be excelled by his relatives.
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Truth, they say, is but too often in difficulties, but is never finally suppressed.
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Many difficulties which nature throws in our way, may be smoothed away by the exercise of intelligence.
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We survive on adversity and perish in ease and comfort.
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