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Amassing of wealth is an opportunity for good deeds, not hubris.

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You should punish in the same manner those who commit crimes with those who accuse falsely.
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Commitment Crime Fake Punishment
Don’t confuse meaning with truth.
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Confusion Meaning One Liner Truth
We know that there can never be any solid friendship between individuals, or union between communities that is worth the name, unless the parties be persuaded of each others honesty
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Community Each Other Friendship Honesty Name Party Solid Worth
Those who really deserve praise are the people who, while human enough to enjoy power, nevertheless pay more attention to justice than they are compelled to do by their situation.
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Attention Deserve Enjoyment Human Justice People Praise Situation
The peoples of the Mediterranean began to emerge from barbarism when they learned to cultivate the olive and the vine.
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Beginning Cultivation Learning People
I think the two things most opposed to good counsel are haste and passion; haste usaully goes hand in hand with folly, passion with coarseness and narrowness of mind.
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Goodness Hands Mindset Passion Thinking
He passes through life most securely who has least reason to reproach himself with complaisance toward his enemies.
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Enemy Himself Life Reason Secure
Indeed it is generally the case that men are readier to call rogues clever than simpletons honest, and are ashamed of being the second as they are proud of being the first.
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Call Honesty Man Proud Shame
When a man finds a conclusion agreeable, he accepts it without argument, but when he finds it disagreeable, he will bring against it all the forces of logic and reason.
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Agreement Finding Force Logic Man Reason
Ignorance is bold and knowledge reserved.
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Bold Ignorance Knowledge Reservation
Speculation is carried on in safety, but, when it comes to action, fear causes failure.
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Action Carry Failure Fear Safety
War is a matter not so much of arms as of money.
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Arms Money War
I dread our own mistakes more than the enemy’s intentions.
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Enemy Intention Mistake Myself
Stories happen to those who tell them.
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Convey Story Talk
When will there be justice in Athens? There will be justice in Athens when those who are not injured are as outraged as those who are.
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Angry Hurt Injury Justice
It is men who make a city, not walls or ships.
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Infrastructure Man Wall

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