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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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Bad beginnings, bad endings.
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Bad Beginning End One Liner
Luck is of little moment to the great general, for it is under the control of his intellect and his judgment.
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Control Greatness Himself Intellectual Judgement Luck Moments
The mind sins, not the body; if there is no intention, there is no blame.
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Blame Body Intention Mindset Sin
He will have true glory who despises it.
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Glory Hate Himself Willing
Truth is often eclipsed but never extinguished.
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Death End Hide Truth
Envy is blind, and is only clever in depreciating the virtues of others.
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Blind Eyes Jealous Smart Virtue
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
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
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
The troubles which have come upon us always seem more serious than those which are only threatening.
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Scare Serious Trouble
From abundance springs safety.
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Material Safety Spring Wealth
The most honorable, as well as the safest course, is to rely entirely upon valour.
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Honor Journey Path Safety
There is nothing worse than being ashamed of parsimony or poverty.
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Money Poor Poverty Shame Worst
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
Greater is our terror of the unknown.
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Greatness One Liner Ourselves Terrorism

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

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