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Events of great consequence often spring from trifling circumstances.

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It is easier to criticize than to correct our past errors.
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Blame Easy Mistake Ourselves Past
Friendships ought to be immortal, hostilities mortal.
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Forever Friendship Immortal Mortal
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
Wit is the flower of the imagination.
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Flower Imagination
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
Events of great consequence often spring from trifling circumstances.
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Event Greatness Spring
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
There is nothing man will not attempt when great enterprises hold out the promise of great rewards.
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Greatness Man Promise Reward
Great contests generally excite great animosities.
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Event Excitement Greatness
Valor is the soldier’s adornment.
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Jewel One Liner Soldier War
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
Rome has grown since its humble beginnings that it is now overwhelmed by its own greatness.
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Beginning Greatness Growth Humble Transformation
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
Truth is often eclipsed but never extinguished.
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Death End Hide Truth
No law is sufficiently convenient to all.
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Enough Law People
Truth, they say, is but too often in difficulties, but is never finally suppressed.
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Difficult Hide Lost Truth

Events of great consequence often spring from trifling circumstances.

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