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Envy is blind, and is only clever in depreciating the virtues of others.

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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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Hope Necessary War Weapon
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
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
Under the influence of fear, which always leads men to take a pessimistic view of things, they magnified their enemies’ resources, and minimized their own.
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Enemy Fear Leadership Man View
Prosperity engenders sloth.
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One Liner Prosperity
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 one wants to be excelled by his relatives.
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Excellence Family Himself
Luck rules every human endeavor, especially war.
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Human Luck Rule War
Nowhere are our calculations more frequently upset than in war.
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Ourselves Place Upset War
We can endure neither our vices nor their cure.
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Endurance Ourselves Vice
In adversity assume the countenance of prosperity, and in prosperity moderate the temper and desires.
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Adversity Angry Desire Prosperity
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
Avarice and luxury, those evils which have been the ruin of every great state.
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Evil Luxury Nation Ruin
It is when fortune is the most propitious that she is least to be trusted.
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Fortune Herself Money Trust Wealth
A woman’s mind is affected by the meanest gifts.
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Gift Mindset Woman
The less there is of fear, the less there is of danger.
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Danger Fear Safety Security

Envy is blind, and is only clever in depreciating the virtues of others.

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