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What is necessary is never a risk.
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In a major matter no details are small.
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Details
Majors
Matter
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There are no small steps in great affairs.
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Campaigns
Political
Small Steps
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Of all the passions, fear weakens judgment most.
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Fear
Judgment
Passion
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Weak souls always set to work at the wrong time.
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Soul
Weak
Weakness
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The most mistrustful are often the greatest dupes.
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Distrust
Dupes
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A man who never trusts himself never trusts anyone.
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Men
Never Trust
Never Trust Anyone
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A man who does not trust himself will never really trust anybody.
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Trust
Men
Doe
Man Will Never
Anybody
Himself
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A man who doesn't trust himself can never really trust anyone else.
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Respect
Trust
Men
Ethics
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Nothing sways the stupid more than arguments they can't understand.
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Argument
Stupid
Stupidity
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Timorous minds are much more inclined to deliberate than to resolve.
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Deliberate
Mind
Resolve
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It's easier to fight one's enemies than to get on with one's friends.
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Easier
Enemy
Fighting
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Most men only commit great crimes because of their scruples about petty ones.
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Men
Crime
Scruples
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It is even more damaging for a minister to say foolish things than to do them.
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Foolish
More Things Than
Damaging
Minister
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Persecution to persons in a high rank stands them in the stead of eminent virtue.
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Persecution
Persons
Virtue
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Every numerous assembly is a mob; everything there depends on instantaneous turns.
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Assembly
Instantaneous
Turns
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She knew how to trust people... a rare quality, revealing a character far above average.
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Trust
Average
Character
People
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Great men help dazzle the people; after that, they dazzle themselves even more dangerously.
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Men
Dazzle
People
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The man who can own up to his error is greater than he who merely knows how to avoid making it.
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Success
Men
Errors
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Nothing indicates the soundness of a man's judgment so much as knowing how to choose between two disadvantages.
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Men
Knowing
Two
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If you have to make an unpopular speech, give it all the sincerity you can muster; that's the only way to sweeten it.
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Giving
Speech
Way
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Where princes are concerned, a man who is able to do good is as dangerous and almost as criminal as a man who intends to do evil.
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Men
Criminals
Evil
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Every man whom chance alone has, by some accident, made a public character, hardly ever fails of becoming, in a short time, a ridiculous private one.
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Men
Becoming
Character
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When you are obliged to make a statement that you know will cause displeasure, you must say it with every appearance of sincerity; this is the only way to make it palatable.
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Causes
Sincerity
Way
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One of man's greatest failings is that he looks almost always for an excuse, in the misfortune that befalls him through his own fault, before looking for a remedy-which means he often finds the remedy too late.
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Men
Looks
Mean
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Weakness has many stages. There is a difference between feebleness by the impotency of the will, of the will to the resolution, of the resolution to the choice of means, of the choice of the means to the application.
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Choices
Differences
Mean
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