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Dignity is a matter which concerns only mankind.

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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
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
Avarice and luxury, those evils which have been the ruin of every great state.
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Evil Luxury Nation Ruin
The sun has not yet set for all time.
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Beginning Hope One Liner Sun Time
Bad beginnings, bad endings.
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Bad Beginning End One Liner
We survive on adversity and perish in ease and comfort.
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Adversity Comfortable Human Survive
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
Nothing moves more quickly than scandal.
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Great contests generally excite great animosities.
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Event Excitement Greatness
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
It is when fortune is the most propitious that she is least to be trusted.
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Temerity is not always successful.
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Chance Failure One Liner Success
We can endure neither our vices nor their cure.
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Resistance to criminal rashness comes better late than never.
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Better Crime Resistance
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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