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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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Ambition breaks the ties of blood, and forgets the obligations of gratitude.
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Ambition Blood Bond Break Forget Gratitude Obligation
Enough words, little wisdom.
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Enough Wisdom Word
Deliberate before you begin; but, having carefully done so, execute with vigour.
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Beginning Care Execution Zeal
Among intellectual pursuits, one of the most useful is the recording of past events.
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Event Intellectual Past Pursuit
The higher your station, the less your liberty.
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High Liberty Station Yourself
Fortune rules in all things, and advances and depresses things more out of her own will than right and justice.
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Depression Fortune Justice Rule Willing
No mortal man has ever served at the same time his passions and his best interests.
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Best Interest Man Mortal Passion Serve Time
Harmony makes small things grow; lack of it makes great things decay.
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Decay Deep Greatness Growth Harmony
Get good counsel before you begin; and when you have decided, act promptly.
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Act Counsel Decision Goodness Prompt
But few prize honour more than money.
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Honor Money Prize
But assuredly Fortune rules in all things; she raised to eminence or buries in oblivion everything from caprice rather than from well-regulated principle.
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Assurance Bury Fate Fortune Principle Raise Rule
To have the same desires and the same aversion is assuredly a firm bond of friendship.
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Bond Desire Friendship
Since we have received everything from the Gods, and it is right to pay the giver some tithe of his gifts, we pay such a tithe of possessions in votive offering, of bodies in gifts of (hair and) adornment, and of life in sacrifices.
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Body Gift God Pay Possession Received Sacrifice
By union the smallest states thrive. By discord the greatest are destroyed.
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Destroy Greatness Small State Thrive
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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Angry Doubt Friendship Offering Opinion
The renown which riches or beauty confer is fleeting and frail mental excellence is a splendid and lasting possession.
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Beautiful Excellence Mental Possession Rich

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