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It is easier to criticize than to correct our past errors.

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In grave difficulties, and with little hope, the boldest measures are the safest.
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Bold Difficult Hope Safety
It is easier to criticize than to correct our past errors.
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Blame Easy Mistake Ourselves Past
There is nothing worse than being ashamed of parsimony or poverty.
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Money Poor Poverty Shame Worst
Adversity makes men remember God.
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Adversity God Hard Time Man One Liner Remember
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
The result showed that fortune helps the brave.
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Brave Fortune Help Inspirational Result
The most honorable, as well as the safest course, is to rely entirely upon valour.
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Honor Journey Path Safety
In difficult and desperate cases, the boldest counsels are the safest.
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Bold Choice Difficult Hard Time Safety
We survive on adversity and perish in ease and comfort.
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Adversity Comfortable Human Survive
Nowhere are our calculations more frequently upset than in war.
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Ourselves Place Upset War
Fame opportunely despised often comes back redoubled.
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Double Fame Hate Return
Toil and pleasure, dissimilar in nature, are nevertheless united by a certain natural bond.
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Bond Nature Relationship Unity
War is just to those to whom war is necessary.
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No wickedness proceeds on any grounds of reason.
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Cruelty Place Reason
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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We can endure neither our vices nor their cure.
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Endurance Ourselves Vice

It is easier to criticize than to correct our past errors.

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