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

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To someone seeking power, the poorest man is the most useful.
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Deep Man Poor Power Seek
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
Of the bodies in the cosmos, some imitate mind and move in orbits; some imitate soul and move in a straight line, fire and air upward, earth and water downward.
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Body Cosmos Down Imitation Move On Soul Water
It is always easy to begin a war, but very difficult to stop one.
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Beginning Difficult Easy Oneself Stop
In my opinion it is less shameful for a king to be overcome by force of arms than by bribery.
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Arms Bribe Force Opinion Shame
The soul is the captain and ruler of the life of morals.
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Captain Life Moral Rule Soul
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
Poor Britons, there is some good in them after all – they produced an oyster.
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Goodness Pearl Production
Each man the architect of his own fate.
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Architect Fate Himself Man
It is better to use fair means and fail, than foul and conquer.
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Better Conquer Failure Right Rule Win
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
Of the cosmic Gods some make the world be, others animate it, others harmonize it, consisting as it does of different elements; the fourth class keep it when harmonized.
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Animate Consist Cosmos God Harmony
For men who had easily endured hardship, danger and difficult uncertainty, leisure and riches, though in some ways desirable, proved burdensome and a source of grief.
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Dangerous Desire Easy Endurance Men Source Way
The Romans assisted their allies and friends, and acquired friendships by giving rather than receiving kindness.
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Assistance Friendship Kindness Receive Roman
Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.
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Decay Fall Life Philosophy Rise
Get good counsel before you begin; and when you have decided, act promptly.
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Act Counsel Decision Goodness Prompt

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