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Truth is often eclipsed but never extinguished.

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Friends should be judged by their acts, not their words.
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Act Friendship Judgement Word
Bad beginnings, bad endings.
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Bad Beginning End One Liner
The troubles which have come upon us always seem more serious than those which are only threatening.
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Scare Serious Trouble
The study of History is the best medicine for a sick mind.
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Best History Mindset Sick Study
We can endure neither our vices nor their cure.
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Endurance Ourselves Vice
In difficult and desperate cases, the boldest counsels are the safest.
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Bold Choice Difficult Hard Time Safety
We survive on adversity and perish in ease and comfort.
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Adversity Comfortable Human Survive
Nowhere are our calculations more frequently upset than in war.
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Ourselves Place Upset War
No man likes to be surpassed by those of his own level.
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Level Man Race
It is when fortune is the most propitious that she is least to be trusted.
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Fortune Herself Money Trust Wealth
The most honorable, as well as the safest course, is to rely entirely upon valour.
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Honor Journey Path Safety
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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Leaving War Weapon Word
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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Best Garden Government Rule Talk
Envy, like flames, soars upwards.
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Deep Fire Flame One Liner
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
The less there is of fear, the less there is of danger.
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Danger Fear Safety Security

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