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Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.

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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
Small communities grow great through harmony, great ones fall to pieces through discord.
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Community Discord Greatness Harmony Oneself Pieces Small
Do as much as possible, and talk of yourself as little as possible.
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Hard Work Modesty Possible Talk Yourself
Those most moved to tears by every word of a preacher are generally weak and a rascal when the feelings evaporate.
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Evaporate Feeling General Move Tears Weakness Word
Everything that rises sets, and everything that grows, grows old.
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Growth Old Rise
We employ the mind to rule, the body to serve.
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Body Employment Mindset Rule Serve
One can ever assume to be what he is not, and to conceal what he is.
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Assume Conceal Himself
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
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
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
A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
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Defeat Goodness Justice Man
All persons who are enthusiastic that they should transcend the other animals ought to strive with the utmost effort not to pass through a life of silence, like cattle, which nature has fashioned to be prone and obedient to their stomachs.
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Animal Effort Nature Obedience Person Stomach Transcend
The poorest of men are the most useful to those seeking power.
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Man Poor Power Seek Useful
The soul is the captain and ruler of the life of morals.
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Captain Life Moral Rule Soul
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
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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