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I have often heard that the outstanding man is he who thinks deeply about a problem, and the next is he who listens carefully to advice.

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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
It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity.
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Excellence Maturity Time
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
No wickedness proceeds on any grounds of reason.
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Cruelty Place Reason
Those ills are easiest to bear with which we are most familiar.
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Easy Known Sick
Truth is often eclipsed but never extinguished.
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Death End Hide Truth
War is just to those to whom war is necessary.
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Choice Necessary War
Never is work without reward, or reward without work.
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Inspirational Reward Success Work
Avarice and luxury, those evils which have been the ruin of every great state.
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Evil Luxury Nation Ruin
It is easier to criticize than to correct our past errors.
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Blame Easy Mistake Ourselves Past
No law is sufficiently convenient to all.
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Enough Law People
All things will be clear and distinct to the man who does not hurry; haste is blind and improvident.
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Blind Clear Hurry Man
Valor is the soldier’s adornment.
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Jewel One Liner Soldier War
Men are seldom blessed with good fortune and good sense at the same time.
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Blessing Funny Goodness Man Money Time
Nothing moves more quickly than scandal.
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Abuse Quick
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

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