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

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Harmony makes small things grow; lack of it makes great things decay.
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Decay Deep Greatness Growth Harmony
It is sweet to surve one country by deeds, and it is not absurd to surve her by words.
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Country Herself Madness Sweet Word
By union the smallest states thrive. By discord the greatest are destroyed.
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Destroy Greatness Small State Thrive
Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master.
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Desire Liberty Master Men
In victory even the cowardly like to boast, while in adverse times even the brave are discredited.
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Brave Coward Credit Time Victory
The Gods being good and making all things, there is no positive evil, it only comes by absence of good; just as darkness itself does not exist, but only comes about by absence of light.
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Absence Darkness Existence God Goodness Light Positive
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
Get good counsel before you begin; and when you have decided, act promptly.
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Act Counsel Decision Goodness Prompt
We employ the mind to rule, the body to serve.
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Body Employment Mindset Rule Serve
The higher your station, the less your liberty.
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High Liberty Station Yourself
Ambition breaks the ties of blood, and forgets the obligations of gratitude.
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Ambition Blood Bond Break Forget Gratitude Obligation
The firmest friendship is based on an identity of likes and dislikes.
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Friendship Identity Nature
Each man the architect of his own fate.
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Architect Fate Himself Man
He that will be angry for anything will be angry for nothing.
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Angry Deep Emotion Feeling Himself
Advise well before you begin, and when you have maturely considered, then act with promptitude.
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Act Advice Beginning Mature
The glory of wealth and of beauty is fleeting and frail; virtue is illustrious and everlasting.
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Beautiful Glory Illustration Virtue Wealth

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