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

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I have often heard that the outstanding man is he who thinks deeply about a problem, and the next is he who listens carefully to advice.
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Advice Care Listening Man Myself Oneself Problem Thinking
Friendships ought to be immortal, hostilities mortal.
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Forever Friendship Immortal Mortal
The old Romans all wished to have a king over them because they had not yet tasted the sweetness of freedom.
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Democracy Freedom People Prison Taste
War is just to those to whom war is necessary.
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Choice Necessary War
Nowhere are our calculations more frequently upset than in war.
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Ourselves Place Upset War
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
Events of great consequence often spring from trifling circumstances.
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Event Greatness Spring
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
There are laws for peace as well as war.
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Law Peace War
No law is quite appropriate for all.
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Law One Liner Quite Right
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
The mind sins, not the body; if there is no intention, there is no blame.
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Blame Body Intention Mindset Sin
An honor prudently declined often returns with increased luster.
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Honor Peace Respect Return
The less there is of fear, the less there is of danger.
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Danger Fear Safety Security
Truth is often eclipsed but never extinguished.
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Death End Hide Truth
Friends should be judged by their acts, not their words.
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Act Friendship Judgement Word

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