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Prosperity tries the souls even of the wise.

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In victory even the cowardly like to boast, while in adverse times even the brave are discredited.
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Brave Coward Credit Time Victory
But few prize honour more than money.
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Honor Money Prize
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
Small communities grow great through harmony, great ones fall to pieces through discord.
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Community Discord Greatness Harmony Oneself Pieces Small
The renown which riches or beauty confer is fleeting and frail mental excellence is a splendid and lasting possession.
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Beautiful Excellence Mental Possession Rich
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
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
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
To have the same desires and the same aversion is assuredly a firm bond of friendship.
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Bond Desire Friendship
To like and dislike the same things that is indeed true friendship.
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Bond Friendship True
Deliberate before you begin; but, having carefully done so, execute with vigour.
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Beginning Care Execution Zeal
The higher your station, the less your liberty.
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High Liberty Station Yourself
It is better to use fair means and fail, than foul and conquer.
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Better Conquer Failure Right Rule Win
Every bad precedent originated as a justifiable measure.
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Bad Measurement Origin
It is always easy to begin a war, but very difficult to stop one.
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Beginning Difficult Easy Oneself Stop
Each man the architect of his own fate.
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Architect Fate Himself Man

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