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

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In my opinion, he only may be truly said to live and enjoy his being who is engaged in some laudable pursuit, and acquires a name by some illustrious action, or useful art.
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Action Enjoyment Illustration Live Myself Name Opinion Pursuit True
Enough words, little wisdom.
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Enough Wisdom Word
Ambition breaks the ties of blood, and forgets the obligations of gratitude.
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Ambition Blood Bond Break Forget Gratitude Obligation
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 someone seeking power, the poorest man is the most useful.
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Deep Man Poor Power Seek
Advise well before you begin, and when you have maturely considered, then act with promptitude.
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Act Advice Beginning Mature
Sovereignty is easily preserved by the very arts by which it was originally created. When, however, energy has given place to indifference, and temperance and justice to passion and arrogance, then as the morals change so changes fortune.
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Arrogance Art Change Creation Easy Fortune Justice Original Place Preserve
Of the bodies in the cosmos, some imitate mind and move in orbits; some imitate soul and move in a straight line, fire and air upward, earth and water downward.
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Body Cosmos Down Imitation Move On Soul Water
The fame that goes with wealth and beauty is fleeting and fragile; intellectual superiority is a possession glorious and eternal.
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Beautiful Fame Forever Glory Intellectual Possession Wealth
He that will be angry for anything will be angry for nothing.
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Angry Deep Emotion Feeling Himself
Neither soldiers nor money can defend a king but only friends won by good deeds, merit, and honesty.
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Friendship Honesty Money Soldier
We employ the mind to rule, the body to serve.
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Body Employment Mindset Rule Serve
Fame is the shadow of passion standing in the light.
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Fame Light Passion Shadow Stand
It is a law of human nature that in victory even the coward may boast of his prowess, while defeat injures the reputation even of the brave.
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Brave Defeat Himself Human Law Nature Reputation Victory
The man who is roused neither by glory nor by danger it is in vain to exhort; terror closes the ears of the mind.
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Dangerous Glory Man Mindset Terror
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

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

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