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

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No grief reaches the dead.
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Death Grief One Liner Reach
One can ever assume to be what he is not, and to conceal what he is.
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Assume Conceal Himself
Each man the architect of his own fate.
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Architect Fate Himself Man
The soul is the captain and ruler of the life of morals.
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Captain Life Moral Rule Soul
To someone seeking power, the poorest man is the most useful.
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Deep Man Poor Power Seek
Among intellectual pursuits, one of the most useful is the recording of past events.
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Event Intellectual Past Pursuit
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
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
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
In my own case, who have spent my whole life in the practice of virtue, right conduct from habitual has become natural.
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Character Life Natural Practice Right Virtue
A good man prefers to suffer rather than overcome injustice with evil.
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Evil Goodness Justice Man Preference
To desire the same things and to reject the same things, constitutes true friendship.
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Desire Friendship Reject
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
He that will be angry for anything will be angry for nothing.
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Angry Deep Emotion Feeling Himself
To hope for safety in flight, when you have turned away from the enemy the arms by which the body is defended, is indeed madness. In battle those who are most afraid are always in most danger; but courage is equivalent to rampart.
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Afraid Body Courage Defeat Enemy Equivalent Hope Madness Safety
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

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