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Each man the architect of his own fate.

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Of the cosmic Gods some make the world be, others animate it, others harmonize it, consisting as it does of different elements; the fourth class keep it when harmonized.
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Animate Consist Cosmos God Harmony
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 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
It is always easy to begin a war, but very difficult to stop one.
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Beginning Difficult Easy Oneself Stop
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
The soul is the captain and ruler of the life of morals.
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Captain Life Moral Rule Soul
For harmony makes small states great, while discord undermines the mightiest empires.
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Empire Greatness Harmony Small State
Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.
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Decay Fall Life Philosophy Rise
All those who offer an opinion on any doubtful point should first clear their minds of every sentiment of dislike, friendship, anger or pity.
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Angry Doubt Friendship Offering Opinion
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
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
Among intellectual pursuits, one of the most useful is the recording of past events.
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Event Intellectual Past Pursuit
Enough words, little wisdom.
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Enough Wisdom Word
All men who would surpass the other animals should do their best not to pass through life silently like the beasts whom nature made prone, obedient to their bellies.
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Animal Best Life Man Obedience Stomach Through
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

Each man the architect of his own fate.

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