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In my opinion it is less shameful for a king to be overcome by force of arms than by bribery.

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Deliberate before you begin; but, having carefully done so, execute with vigour.
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Beginning Care Execution Zeal
No grief reaches the dead.
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Death Grief One Liner Reach
Ambition breaks the ties of blood, and forgets the obligations of gratitude.
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Ambition Blood Bond Break Forget Gratitude Obligation
To desire the same things and to reject the same things, constitutes true friendship.
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Desire Friendship Reject
In my own case, who have spent my whole life in the practice of virtue, right conduct from habitual has become natural.
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Character Life Natural Practice Right Virtue
Every bad precedent originated as a justifiable measure.
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Bad Measurement Origin
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
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
Neither the army nor the treasury, but friends, are the true supports of the throne; for friends cannot be collected by force of arms, nor purchased with money; they are the offspring of kindness and sincerity.
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Army Collection Force Kindness Kingdom Money Sincere Support Treasure True
Poor Britons, there is some good in them after all – they produced an oyster.
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Goodness Pearl Production
There were few who preferred honor to money.
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Honor Money Preference
Before you act consider; when you have considered, tis fully time to act.
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Act Action Consider Time Yourself
Fame is the shadow of passion standing in the light.
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Fame Light Passion Shadow Stand
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
Everything destroyed is either resolved into the elements from which it came, or else vanishes into not-being. If things are resolved into the elements from which they came, then there will be others: else how did they come into being at all?
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Destroy Element Existence
He that will be angry for anything will be angry for nothing.
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Angry Deep Emotion Feeling Himself

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