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Before you act consider; when you have considered, tis fully time to act.

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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
Greedy for the property of others, extravagant with his own
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Himself Own Property
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
Ambition drove many men to become false; to have one thought locked in the breast, another ready on the tongue.
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Ambition Drive Fake Lock Man Ready Thinking
It is always easy to begin a war, but very difficult to stop one.
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Beginning Difficult Easy Oneself Stop
Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.
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Decay Fall Life Philosophy Rise
The poorest of men are the most useful to those seeking power.
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Man Poor Power Seek Useful
To like and dislike the same things that is indeed true friendship.
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Bond Friendship True
One can ever assume to be what he is not, and to conceal what he is.
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Assume Conceal Himself
Do as much as possible, and talk of yourself as little as possible.
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Hard Work Modesty Possible Talk Yourself
The firmest friendship is based on an identity of likes and dislikes.
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Friendship Identity Nature
Deliberate before you begin; but, having carefully done so, execute with vigour.
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Beginning Care Execution Zeal
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
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
To desire the same things and to reject the same things, constitutes true friendship.
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Desire Friendship Reject

Before you act consider; when you have considered, tis fully time to act.

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