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Advise well before you begin, and when you have maturely considered, then act with promptitude.

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Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master.
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Desire Liberty Master Men
We employ the mind to rule, the body to serve.
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Body Employment Mindset Rule Serve
Harmony makes small things grow; lack of it makes great things decay.
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Decay Deep Greatness Growth Harmony
The fame that goes with wealth and beauty is fleeting and fragile; intellectual superiority is a possession glorious and eternal.
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Beautiful Fame Forever Glory Intellectual Possession Wealth
He that will be angry for anything will be angry for nothing.
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Angry Deep Emotion Feeling Himself
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
Before you act consider; when you have considered, tis fully time to act.
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Act Action Consider Time Yourself
To desire the same things and to reject the same things, constitutes true friendship.
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Desire Friendship Reject
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
But few prize honour more than money.
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Honor Money Prize
But the case has proved that to be true which Appius says in his songs, that each man is the maker of his own fate.
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Creator Fate Man Song True
No grief reaches the dead.
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Death Grief One Liner Reach
It is better to use fair means and fail, than foul and conquer.
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Better Conquer Failure Right Rule Win
For harmony makes small states great, while discord undermines the mightiest empires.
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Empire Greatness Harmony Small State
Get good counsel before you begin; and when you have decided, act promptly.
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Act Counsel Decision Goodness Prompt
To someone seeking power, the poorest man is the most useful.
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Deep Man Poor Power Seek

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