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All those who offer an opinion on any doubtful point should first clear their minds of every sentiment of dislike, friendship, anger or pity.

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Everything that rises sets, and everything that grows, grows old.
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Growth Old Rise
To someone seeking power, the poorest man is the most useful.
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Deep Man Poor Power Seek
Poor Britons, there is some good in them after all – they produced an oyster.
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Goodness Pearl Production
No grief reaches the dead.
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Death Grief One Liner Reach
Deliberate before you begin; but, having carefully done so, execute with vigour.
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Beginning Care Execution Zeal
The very life which we enjoy is short.
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Enjoyment Life One Liner Short
Sovereignty is easily preserved by the very arts by which it was originally created. When, however, energy has given place to indifference, and temperance and justice to passion and arrogance, then as the morals change so changes fortune.
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Arrogance Art Change Creation Easy Fortune Justice Original Place Preserve
Small communities grow great through harmony, great ones fall to pieces through discord.
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Community Discord Greatness Harmony Oneself Pieces Small
Advise well before you begin, and when you have maturely considered, then act with promptitude.
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Act Advice Beginning Mature
The poorest of men are the most useful to those seeking power.
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Man Poor Power Seek Useful
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
It is a law of human nature that in victory even the coward may boast of his prowess, while defeat injures the reputation even of the brave.
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Brave Defeat Himself Human Law Nature Reputation Victory
The man who is roused neither by glory nor by danger it is in vain to exhort; terror closes the ears of the mind.
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Dangerous Glory Man Mindset Terror
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
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
Necessity makes even the timid brave.
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Brave Circumstance Coward Necessary

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