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Toil and pleasure, dissimilar in nature, are nevertheless united by a certain natural bond.

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A fraudulent intent, however carefully concealed at the outset, will generally, in the end, betray itself.
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Betray Care End Fake Trust
Under the influence of fear, which always leads men to take a pessimistic view of things, they magnified their enemies’ resources, and minimized their own.
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Enemy Fear Leadership Man View
Woe to the conquered.
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Conquer One Liner Win
Men are slower to recognize blessings than evils.
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Blessing Evil Gratitude Man Recognition
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
We can endure neither our vices nor their cure.
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Endurance Ourselves Vice
He will have true glory who despises it.
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Glory Hate Himself Willing
Nothing moves more quickly than scandal.
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Abuse Quick
It is when fortune is the most propitious that she is least to be trusted.
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Fortune Herself Money Trust Wealth
The mind sins, not the body; if there is no intention, there is no blame.
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Blame Body Intention Mindset Sin
War is just to those to whom war is necessary.
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Choice Necessary War
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
Nowhere are our calculations more frequently upset than in war.
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Ourselves Place Upset War
Resistance to criminal rashness comes better late than never.
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Better Crime Resistance
No law can possibly meet the convenience of every one: we must be satisfied if it be beneficial on the whole and to the majority.
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Law Oneself Possible Satisfaction
When Tarquin the Proud was asked what was the best mode of governing a conquered city, he replied only by beating down with his staff all the tallest poppies in his garden.
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Best Garden Government Rule Talk

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