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He that will be angry for anything will be angry for nothing.

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Necessity makes even the timid brave.
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Brave Circumstance Coward Necessary
Prosperity tries the souls even of the wise.
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Prosperity Soul Try Wisdom
Poor Britons, there is some good in them after all – they produced an oyster.
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Goodness Pearl Production
No man underestimates the wrongs he suffers; many take them more seriously than is right.
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Himself Man Right Serious Suffering Wrong
The man who is roused neither by glory nor by danger it is in vain to exhort; terror closes the ears of the mind.
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Dangerous Glory Man Mindset Terror
To someone seeking power, the poorest man is the most useful.
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Deep Man Poor Power Seek
There were few who preferred honor to money.
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Honor Money Preference
A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
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Defeat Goodness Justice Man
The very life which we enjoy is short.
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Enjoyment Life One Liner Short
All persons who are enthusiastic that they should transcend the other animals ought to strive with the utmost effort not to pass through a life of silence, like cattle, which nature has fashioned to be prone and obedient to their stomachs.
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Animal Effort Nature Obedience Person Stomach Transcend
It is better to use fair means and fail, than foul and conquer.
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Better Conquer Failure Right Rule Win
Neither soldiers nor money can defend a king but only friends won by good deeds, merit, and honesty.
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Friendship Honesty Money Soldier
He that will be angry for anything will be angry for nothing.
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Angry Deep Emotion Feeling Himself
It is always easy to begin a war, but very difficult to stop one.
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Beginning Difficult Easy Oneself Stop
When the prizes fall to the lot of the wicked, you will not find many who are virtuous for virtue’s sake.
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Fall Finding Prize Virtue Yourself
Ambition drove many men to become false; to have one thought locked in the breast, another ready on the tongue.
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Ambition Drive Fake Lock Man Ready Thinking

He that will be angry for anything will be angry for nothing.

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