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

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They envy the distinction I have won; let them therefore, envy my toils, my honesty, and the methods by which I gained it.
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Jealous Method Myself Win
The very life which we enjoy is short.
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Enjoyment Life One Liner Short
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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Beginning Blessing Decay Fortune Health
The poorest of men are the most useful to those seeking power.
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Man Poor Power Seek Useful
Ambition breaks the ties of blood, and forgets the obligations of gratitude.
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Ambition Blood Bond Break Forget Gratitude Obligation
All who consult on doubtful matters, should be void of hatred, friendship, anger, and pity.
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Angry Doubt Friendship Hate Pity
The soul is the captain and ruler of the life of morals.
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Captain Life Moral Rule Soul
All men who would surpass the other animals should do their best not to pass through life silently like the beasts whom nature made prone, obedient to their bellies.
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Animal Best Life Man Obedience Stomach Through
Harmony makes small things grow; lack of it makes great things decay.
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Decay Deep Greatness Growth Harmony
Every bad precedent originated as a justifiable measure.
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Bad Measurement Origin
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
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
Just to stir things up seemed a great reward in itself.
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Greatness Reward
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
To like and dislike the same things that is indeed true friendship.
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Bond Friendship True
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

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