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Dignity is a matter which concerns only mankind.

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Bad beginnings, bad endings.
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Bad Beginning End One Liner
No one wants to be excelled by his relatives.
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Excellence Family Himself
From abundance springs safety.
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Material Safety Spring Wealth
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
Envy, like flames, soars upwards.
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Deep Fire Flame One Liner
It is easier to criticize than to correct our past errors.
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Blame Easy Mistake Ourselves Past
Men’s minds are too ready to excuse guilt in themselves.
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Guilty Men Mindset
Men are only clever at shifting blame from their own shoulders to those of others.
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Blame Clever Man People Smart
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
Nothing is so uncertain or unpredictable as the feelings of a crowd.
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Feeling People Uncertain
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
Truth, they say, is but too often in difficulties, but is never finally suppressed.
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Difficult Hide Lost Truth
Events of great consequence often spring from trifling circumstances.
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Event Greatness Spring
Those ills are easiest to bear with which we are most familiar.
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Easy Known Sick
Avarice and luxury, those evils which have been the ruin of every great state.
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Evil Luxury Nation Ruin
A certain peace is better and safer than a victory in prospect; the former is at your own disposal, the latter depends upon the gods.
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Better God Peace Safety Victory

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