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It is always easy to begin a war, but very difficult to stop one.

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Get good counsel before you begin; and when you have decided, act promptly.
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Act Counsel Decision Goodness Prompt
Prosperity tries the souls even of the wise.
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Prosperity Soul Try Wisdom
Ambition breaks the ties of blood, and forgets the obligations of gratitude.
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Ambition Blood Bond Break Forget Gratitude Obligation
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
The firmest friendship is based on an identity of likes and dislikes.
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Friendship Identity Nature
Every bad precedent originated as a justifiable measure.
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Bad Measurement Origin
Harmony makes small things grow; lack of it makes great things decay.
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Decay Deep Greatness Growth Harmony
To desire the same things and to reject the same things, constitutes true friendship.
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Desire Friendship Reject
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
When the prizes fall to the lot of the wicked, you will not find many who are virtuous for virtue’s sake.
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Fall Finding Prize Virtue Yourself
By the wicked the good conduct of others is always dreaded.
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Dread Goodness Wicked
Kings are more prone to mistrust the good than the bad; and they are always afraid of the virtues of others.
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Afraid Bad Goodness Trust Virtue
Do as much as possible, and talk of yourself as little as possible.
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Hard Work Modesty Possible Talk Yourself
There were few who preferred honor to money.
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Honor Money Preference
It is sweet to surve one country by deeds, and it is not absurd to surve her by words.
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Country Herself Madness Sweet Word

It is always easy to begin a war, but very difficult to stop one.

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