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Men are only too clever at shifting blame from their own shoulders to those of others.

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Men are slower to recognise blessings than misfortunes.

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Under the influence of fear, which always leads men to take a pessimistic view of things, they magnified their enemies' resources, and minimized their own.

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Shared danger is the strongest of bonds; it will keep men united in spite of mutual dislike and suspicion.

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They lived under a just and moderate government, and they admitted that one bond of their fidelity was that their rulers were the better men.

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Fortune blinds men when she does not wish them to withstand the violence of her onslaughts.

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He was always before men's eyes; a course of action which, by increasing our familiarity with great men, diminishes our respect for them.

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They are more than men at the outset of their battles; at the end they are less than the women.

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He would not anticipate those counsels which are rather bestowed by circumstances on men, than by men on circumstances.

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