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

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To desire the same things and to reject the same things, constitutes true friendship.
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Desire Friendship Reject
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
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
There were few who preferred honor to money.
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Honor Money Preference
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
Before you act consider; when you have considered, tis fully time to act.
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Act Action Consider Time Yourself
Every bad precedent originated as a justifiable measure.
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Bad Measurement Origin
Advise well before you begin, and when you have maturely considered, then act with promptitude.
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Act Advice Beginning Mature
To have the same desires and the same aversion is assuredly a firm bond of friendship.
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Bond Desire Friendship
The very life which we enjoy is short.
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Enjoyment Life One Liner Short
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
Distinguished ancestors shed a powerful light on their descendants, and forbid the concealment either of their merits or of their demerits.
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Advice Ancestor Help Light Powerful
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
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
Not by vows nor by womanish prayers is the help of the gods obtained; success comes through vigilance, energy, wise counsel.
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Counsel Energy God Help Prayer Promise Success Vow Wisdom
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

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