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    To execute great things, one should live as though one would never die.

    Great | Die | Execute


    Prosperity makes few friends.

    Prosperity | Few


    The fruit derived from labor is the sweetest of pleasures.

    Fruit | Labor | Sweetest


    The maxims of men reveal their characters.

    Men | Reveal | Characters


    Vice stirs up war, virtue fights.

    War | Virtue | Vice


    We should expect the best and the worst of mankind, as from the weather.

    Best | Weather | Worst


    Wicked people are always surprised to find ability in those that are good.

    Good | Wicked | Ability


    It is difficult to esteem a man as highly as he would wish.

    Wish | Difficult | Esteem


    The greatest evil which fortune can inflict on men is to endow them with small talents and great ambition.

    Great | Men | Greatest


    The idle always have a mind to do something.

    Idle


    If people did not compliment one another there would be little society.

    Society | Compliment


    You are not born for fame if you don't know the value of time.

    Time | Value | Born


    You must rouse into people's consciousness their own prudence and strength, if you want to raise their character.

    Strength | Prudence | Raise


    Men sometimes feel injured by praise because it assigns a limit to their merit; few people are modest enough not to take offense that one appreciates them.

    Men | Limit | Praise


    Everyone is born sincere and die deceivers.

    Die | Born | Sincere


    The conscience of the dying belies their life.

    Life | Dying | Conscience


    The fool is like those people who think themselves rich with little.

    Fool | Rich | Themselves


    The law cannot equalize mankind in spite of nature.

    Nature | Law | Mankind


    There is nothing that fear and hope does not permit men to do.

    Fear | Hope | Men


    To possess taste, one must have some soul.

    Soul | Taste | Possess


       

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