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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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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
Adversity makes men remember God.
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Adversity God Hard Time Man One Liner Remember
Men are seldom blessed with good fortune and good sense at the same time.
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Blessing Funny Goodness Man Money Time
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
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
No wickedness proceeds on any grounds of reason.
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Cruelty Place Reason
Temerity is not always successful.
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Chance Failure One Liner Success
We can endure neither our vices nor their cure.
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Endurance Ourselves Vice
Men’s minds are too ready to excuse guilt in themselves.
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Guilty Men Mindset
A gentleman is mindful no less of the freedom of others than of his own dignity.
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Dignity Freedom Man Mindset
Dignity is a matter which concerns only mankind.
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Animal Deep Dignity Kind Man
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
The sun has not yet set for all time.
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Beginning Hope One Liner Sun Time
It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity.
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Excellence Maturity Time
Truth is often eclipsed but never extinguished.
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Death End Hide Truth
In adversity assume the countenance of prosperity, and in prosperity moderate the temper and desires.
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Adversity Angry Desire Prosperity
Luck rules every human endeavor, especially war.
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Human Luck Rule War
It is easy at any moment to resign the possession of a great fortune; to acquire it is difficult and arduous.
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Difficult Easy Fortune Greatness Leaving Moments
That business does not prosper which you transact with the eyes of others.
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Business Eyes People Prosperity
The most honorable, as well as the safest course, is to rely entirely upon valour.
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Honor Journey Path Safety
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
It is when fortune is the most propitious that she is least to be trusted.
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Fortune Herself Money Trust Wealth
Wit is the flower of the imagination.
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Flower Imagination
Nothing hurts worse than the loss of money.
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Hurt Loss Money Pain Wealth
Nowhere are our calculations more frequently upset than in war.
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Ourselves Place Upset War
In difficult and desperate cases, the boldest counsels are the safest.
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Bold Choice Difficult Hard Time Safety
War is just to those to whom war is necessary.
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Choice Necessary War

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