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

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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 one wants to be excelled by his relatives.
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Excellence Family Himself
He will have true glory who despises it.
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Glory Hate Himself Willing
Nowhere are our calculations more frequently upset than in war.
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Ourselves Place Upset War
We survive on adversity and perish in ease and comfort.
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Adversity Comfortable Human Survive
Prosperity engenders sloth.
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One Liner Prosperity
A gentleman is mindful no less of the freedom of others than of his own dignity.
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Dignity Freedom Man Mindset
The real power behind whatever success I have now was something I found within myself – something that’s in all of us, I think, a little piece of God just waiting to be discovered.
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Discover God Independent Myself Pieces Power Reality Success Thinking Wait
No law is sufficiently convenient to all.
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Enough Law People
Avarice and luxury, those evils which have been the ruin of every great state.
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Evil Luxury Nation Ruin
No crime can ever be defended on rational grounds.
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Crime Justice Law Legal Protection
Dignity is a matter which concerns only mankind.
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Animal Deep Dignity Kind Man
There is always more spirit in attack than in defence.
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Attack Protection Spirit
This above all makes history useful and desirable; it unfolds before our eyes a glorious record of exemplary actions.
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Action Desire Eyes Glory History
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 things complicated by nature are restored by reason.
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Complication Man Nature Reason

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

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