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This above all makes history useful and desirable; it unfolds before our eyes a glorious record of exemplary actions.

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From abundance springs safety.
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Material Safety Spring Wealth
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
In difficult and desperate cases, the boldest counsels are the safest.
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Bold Choice Difficult Hard Time Safety
It is easier to criticize than to correct our past errors.
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Blame Easy Mistake Ourselves Past
Nothing is so uncertain or unpredictable as the feelings of a crowd.
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Feeling People Uncertain
The most honorable, as well as the safest course, is to rely entirely upon valour.
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Honor Journey Path Safety
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
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
Truth is often eclipsed but never extinguished.
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Death End Hide Truth
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
It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity.
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Excellence Maturity Time
Those ills are easiest to bear with which we are most familiar.
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Easy Known Sick
No law is quite appropriate for all.
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Law One Liner Quite Right
Valor is the soldier’s adornment.
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Jewel One Liner Soldier War
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
There are laws for peace as well as war.
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Law Peace War

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