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Small endeavours obtain strength by unity of action: the most powerful are broken down by discord.

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For harmony makes small states great, while discord undermines the mightiest empires.
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Empire Greatness Harmony Small State
Kings are more prone to mistrust the good than the bad; and they are always afraid of the virtues of others.
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Afraid Bad Goodness Trust Virtue
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
Ambition drove many men to become false; to have one thought locked in the breast, another ready on the tongue.
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Ambition Drive Fake Lock Man Ready Thinking
The soul is the captain and ruler of the life of morals.
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Captain Life Moral Rule Soul
Greedy for the property of others, extravagant with his own
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Himself Own Property
Poor Britons, there is some good in them after all – they produced an oyster.
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Goodness Pearl Production
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
Small communities grow great through harmony, great ones fall to pieces through discord.
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Community Discord Greatness Harmony Oneself Pieces Small
Prosperity tries the souls even of the wise.
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Prosperity Soul Try Wisdom
No grief reaches the dead.
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Death Grief One Liner Reach
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
But at power or wealth, for the sake of which wars, and all kinds of strife, arise among mankind, we do not aim; we desire only our liberty, which no honorable man relinquishes but with his life.
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Desire Himself Kind Liberty Life Man Power War Wealth
Small endeavours obtain strength by unity of action: the most powerful are broken down by discord.
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Action Break Discord Small Strength Unity
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
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

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