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Shared danger is the strongest of bonds; it will keep men united in spite of mutual dislike and suspicion.

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There is nothing worse than being ashamed of parsimony or poverty.
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Money Poor Poverty Shame Worst
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
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
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
The most honorable, as well as the safest course, is to rely entirely upon valour.
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Honor Journey Path Safety
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
Envy, like flames, soars upwards.
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Deep Fire Flame One Liner
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
The old Romans all wished to have a king over them because they had not yet tasted the sweetness of freedom.
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Democracy Freedom People Prison Taste
A woman’s mind is affected by the meanest gifts.
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Gift Mindset Woman
We feel public misfortunes just so far as they affect our private circumstances, and nothing of this nature appeals more directly to us than the loss of money.
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Direction Feeling Loss Money Privacy
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
The sun has not yet set for all time.
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Beginning Hope One Liner Sun Time
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
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
Many things complicated by nature are restored by reason.
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Complication Man Nature Reason

Shared danger is the strongest of bonds; it will keep men united in spite of mutual dislike and suspicion.

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