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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
The glory of riches and of beauty is frail and transitory; virtue remains bright and eternal.
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Beautiful Bright Forever Fragile Glory Rich
As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.
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Beginning Blessing Decay Fortune Health
Fortune rules in all things, and advances and depresses things more out of her own will than right and justice.
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Depression Fortune Justice Rule Willing
Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.
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Decay Fall Life Philosophy Rise
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
A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
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Defeat Goodness Justice Man
To like and dislike the same things that is indeed true friendship.
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Bond Friendship True
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
Neither the army nor the treasury, but friends, are the true supports of the throne; for friends cannot be collected by force of arms, nor purchased with money; they are the offspring of kindness and sincerity.
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Army Collection Force Kindness Kingdom Money Sincere Support Treasure True
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
Everything that rises sets, and everything that grows, grows old.
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Growth Old Rise
It is impossible that there should be so much providence in the last details, and none in the first principles. Then the arts of prophecy and of healing, which are part of the cosmos, come of the good providence of the Gods.
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Cosmos Detail God Healing Impossible Principle
Among intellectual pursuits, one of the most useful is the recording of past events.
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Event Intellectual Past Pursuit
It is better to use fair means and fail, than foul and conquer.
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Better Conquer Failure Right Rule Win

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