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All who consult on doubtful matters, should be void of hatred, friendship, anger, and pity.

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In victory even the cowardly like to boast, while in adverse times even the brave are discredited.
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Brave Coward Credit Time Victory
A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
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Defeat Goodness Justice Man
Advise well before you begin, and when you have maturely considered, then act with promptitude.
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Act Advice Beginning Mature
Ambition drove many men to become false; to have one thought locked in the breast, another ready on the tongue.
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Ambition Drive Fake Lock Man Ready Thinking
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
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
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
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
Enough words, little wisdom.
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Enough Wisdom Word
It is always easy enough to take up arms, but very difficult to lay them down; the commencement and the termination of war are not necessarily in the same hands; even a coward may begin, but the end comes only when the victors are willing.
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Coward Difficult Easy Enough Hands Necessary War Willing
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
Greedy for the property of others, extravagant with his own
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Himself Own Property
The higher your station, the less your liberty.
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High Liberty Station Yourself
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
It is better to use fair means and fail, than foul and conquer.
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Better Conquer Failure Right Rule Win

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