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No man underestimates the wrongs he suffers; many take them more seriously than is right.

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Small communities grow great through harmony, great ones fall to pieces through discord.
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Community Discord Greatness Harmony Oneself Pieces Small
By the wicked the good conduct of others is always dreaded.
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Dread Goodness Wicked
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
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
In battle it is the cowards who run the most risk; bravery is a rampart of defense.
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Battle Brave Coward Defense Risk Run
The firmest friendship is based on an identity of likes and dislikes.
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Friendship Identity Nature
He that will be angry for anything will be angry for nothing.
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Angry Deep Emotion Feeling Himself
For harmony makes small states great, while discord undermines the mightiest empires.
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Empire Greatness Harmony Small State
By union the smallest states thrive. By discord the greatest are destroyed.
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Destroy Greatness Small State Thrive
There were few who preferred honor to money.
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Honor Money Preference
Get good counsel before you begin; and when you have decided, act promptly.
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Act Counsel Decision Goodness Prompt
Poor Britons, there is some good in them after all – they produced an oyster.
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Goodness Pearl Production
Advise well before you begin, and when you have maturely considered, then act with promptitude.
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Act Advice Beginning Mature
Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.
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Decay Fall Life Philosophy Rise
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
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

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