The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.
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Many have dreamed up republics and principalities that have never in truth been known to exist the gulf between how one should live and how one does live is so wide that a man who neglects what is actually done for what should be done learns the way to self-destruction rather than self-preservation.
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War is just when it is necessary; arms are permissible when there is no hope except in arms.
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There are three classes of intellects one which comprehends by itself another which appreciates what others comprehend and a third which neither comprehends by itself nor by the showing of others the first is the most excellent, the second is good, the third is useless.
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Fortune is a woman, and therefore friendly to the young, who with audacity command her.
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Wise men say, and not without reason, that whoever wished to foresee the future might consult the past.
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