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

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We employ the mind to rule, the body to serve.
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Body Employment Mindset Rule Serve
Prosperity tries the souls even of the wise.
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Prosperity Soul Try Wisdom
For harmony makes small states great, while discord undermines the mightiest empires.
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Empire Greatness Harmony Small State
Do as much as possible, and talk of yourself as little as possible.
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Hard Work Modesty Possible Talk Yourself
By union the smallest states thrive. By discord the greatest are destroyed.
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Destroy Greatness Small State Thrive
All who consult on doubtful matters, should be void of hatred, friendship, anger, and pity.
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Angry Doubt Friendship Hate Pity
It is impossible that there should be so much providence in the last details, and none in the first principles. Then the arts of prophecy and of healing, which are part of the cosmos, come of the good providence of the Gods.
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Cosmos Detail God Healing Impossible Principle
They envy the distinction I have won; let them therefore, envy my toils, my honesty, and the methods by which I gained it.
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Jealous Method Myself Win
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
Everything that rises sets, and everything that grows, grows old.
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Growth Old Rise
But few prize honour more than money.
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Honor Money Prize
Among intellectual pursuits, one of the most useful is the recording of past events.
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Event Intellectual Past Pursuit
The fame which is based on wealth or beauty is a frail and fleeting thing; but virtue shines for ages with undiminished lustre.
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Age Fame Luster Virtual Wealth
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
Each man the architect of his own fate.
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Architect Fate Himself Man
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

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