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Small endeavours obtain strength by unity of action: the most powerful are broken down by discord.

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The glory of riches and of beauty is frail and transitory; virtue remains bright and eternal.
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Beautiful Bright Forever Fragile Glory Rich
It is always easy to begin a war, but very difficult to stop one.
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Beginning Difficult Easy Oneself Stop
One can ever assume to be what he is not, and to conceal what he is.
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Assume Conceal Himself
By the wicked the good conduct of others is always dreaded.
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Dread Goodness Wicked
Every bad precedent originated as a justifiable measure.
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Bad Measurement Origin
It is impossible that there should be so much providence in the last details, and none in the first principles. Then the arts of prophecy and of healing, which are part of the cosmos, come of the good providence of the Gods.
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Cosmos Detail God Healing Impossible Principle
It is better to use fair means and fail, than foul and conquer.
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Better Conquer Failure Right Rule Win
No man underestimates the wrongs he suffers; many take them more seriously than is right.
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Himself Man Right Serious Suffering Wrong
By union the smallest states thrive. By discord the greatest are destroyed.
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Destroy Greatness Small State Thrive
The poorest of men are the most useful to those seeking power.
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Man Poor Power Seek Useful
Of the cosmic Gods some make the world be, others animate it, others harmonize it, consisting as it does of different elements; the fourth class keep it when harmonized.
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Animate Consist Cosmos God Harmony
As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.
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Beginning Blessing Decay Fortune Health
Ambition drove many men to become false; to have one thought locked in the breast, another ready on the tongue.
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Ambition Drive Fake Lock Man Ready Thinking
Before you act consider; when you have considered, tis fully time to act.
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Act Action Consider Time Yourself
It is always easy enough to take up arms, but very difficult to lay them down; the commencement and the termination of war are not necessarily in the same hands; even a coward may begin, but the end comes only when the victors are willing.
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Coward Difficult Easy Enough Hands Necessary War Willing
Distinguished ancestors shed a powerful light on their descendants, and forbid the concealment either of their merits or of their demerits.
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Advice Ancestor Help Light Powerful

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