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

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No man underestimates the wrongs he suffers; many take them more seriously than is right.
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Himself Man Right Serious Suffering Wrong
Small communities grow great through harmony, great ones fall to pieces through discord.
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Community Discord Greatness Harmony Oneself Pieces Small
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
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
Everything destroyed is either resolved into the elements from which it came, or else vanishes into not-being. If things are resolved into the elements from which they came, then there will be others: else how did they come into being at all?
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Destroy Element Existence
Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.
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Decay Fall Life Philosophy Rise
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
Before you act consider; when you have considered, tis fully time to act.
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Act Action Consider Time Yourself
No grief reaches the dead.
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Death Grief One Liner Reach
The higher your station, the less your liberty.
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High Liberty Station Yourself
For harmony makes small states great, while discord undermines the mightiest empires.
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Empire Greatness Harmony Small State
A good man prefers to suffer rather than overcome injustice with evil.
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Evil Goodness Justice Man Preference
But few prize honour more than money.
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Honor Money Prize
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 glory of ancestors sheds a light around posterity; it allows neither good nor bad qualities to remain in obscurity.
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Ancestor Bad Glory Goodness Light Obscurity Quality
To like and dislike the same things that is indeed true friendship.
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Bond Friendship True

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

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