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

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There is nothing man will not attempt when great enterprises hold out the promise of great rewards.
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Greatness Man Promise Reward
The result showed that fortune helps the brave.
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Brave Fortune Help Inspirational Result
There are laws for peace as well as war.
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Law Peace War
There is an old saying which, from its truth, has become proverbial, that friendships should be immortal, enmities mortal.
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Enemy Friendship Immortal Truth
No man likes to be surpassed by those of his own level.
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Level Man Race
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
It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity.
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Excellence Maturity Time
No wickedness proceeds on any grounds of reason.
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Cruelty Place Reason
Dignity is a matter which concerns only mankind.
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Animal Deep Dignity Kind Man
War is just to those to whom war is necessary.
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Choice Necessary War
Events of great consequence often spring from trifling circumstances.
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Event Greatness Spring
War is just to those for whom it is necessary, and arms are clear of impiety for those who have no hope left but in arms.
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Hope Necessary War Weapon
In grave difficulties, and with little hope, the boldest measures are the safest.
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Bold Difficult Hope 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
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
Bad beginnings, bad endings.
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Bad Beginning End One Liner
Treachery, though at first very cautious, in the end betrays itself.
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Betray End Fake Trust
The most honorable, as well as the safest course, is to rely entirely upon valour.
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Honor Journey Path Safety
Men’s minds are too ready to excuse guilt in themselves.
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Guilty Men Mindset
Wit is the flower of the imagination.
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Flower Imagination
We survive on adversity and perish in ease and comfort.
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Adversity Comfortable Human Survive
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
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 crime can ever be defended on rational grounds.
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Crime Justice Law Legal Protection
No law is sufficiently convenient to all.
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Enough Law People
Men are slower to recognize blessings than evils.
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Blessing Evil Gratitude Man Recognition
Nowhere are our calculations more frequently upset than in war.
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Ourselves Place Upset War

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