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Deliberate before you begin; but, having carefully done so, execute with vigour.

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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
To someone seeking power, the poorest man is the most useful.
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Deep Man Poor Power Seek
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
Before you act consider; when you have considered, tis fully time to act.
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Act Action Consider Time Yourself
It is always easy to begin a war, but very difficult to stop one.
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Beginning Difficult Easy Oneself Stop
Advise well before you begin, and when you have maturely considered, then act with promptitude.
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Act Advice Beginning Mature
Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master.
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Desire Liberty Master Men
Fame is the shadow of passion standing in the light.
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Fame Light Passion Shadow Stand
The Gods being good and making all things, there is no positive evil, it only comes by absence of good; just as darkness itself does not exist, but only comes about by absence of light.
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Absence Darkness Existence God Goodness Light Positive
But at power or wealth, for the sake of which wars, and all kinds of strife, arise among mankind, we do not aim; we desire only our liberty, which no honorable man relinquishes but with his life.
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Desire Himself Kind Liberty Life Man Power War Wealth
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
Among intellectual pursuits, one of the most useful is the recording of past events.
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Event Intellectual Past Pursuit
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
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
Everything that rises sets, and everything that grows, grows old.
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Growth Old Rise
Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.
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Decay Fall Life Philosophy Rise

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