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Nothing is so uncertain or unpredictable as the feelings of a crowd.

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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
There is nothing that is more often clothed in an attractive garb than a false creed.
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Appearance Attraction Deep Fake Wisdom
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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Control Greatness Himself Intellectual Judgement Luck Moments
No wickedness proceeds on any grounds of reason.
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Cruelty Place Reason
The sun has not yet set for all time.
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Beginning Hope One Liner Sun Time
Friendships ought to be immortal, hostilities mortal.
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Forever Friendship Immortal Mortal
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
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
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
We feel public misfortunes just so far as they affect our private circumstances, and nothing of this nature appeals more directly to us than the loss of money.
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Direction Feeling Loss Money Privacy
Men are only clever at shifting blame from their own shoulders to those of others.
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Blame Clever Man People Smart
Treachery, though at first very cautious, in the end betrays itself.
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Betray End Fake Trust
Avarice and luxury, those evils which have been the ruin of every great state.
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Evil Luxury Nation Ruin
A woman’s mind is affected by the meanest gifts.
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Gift Mindset Woman
It is easier to criticize than to correct our past errors.
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Blame Easy Mistake Ourselves Past
Such is the nature of crowds: either they are humble and servile or arrogant and dominating. They are incapable of making moderate use of freedom, which is the middle course, or of keeping it.
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Ability Domination Freedom Humble Nature People

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