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

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The firmest friendship is based on an identity of likes and dislikes.
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Friendship Identity Nature
Necessity makes even the timid brave.
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Brave Circumstance Coward Necessary
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
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
Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master.
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Desire Liberty Master Men
Harmony makes small things grow; lack of it makes great things decay.
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Decay Deep Greatness Growth Harmony
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
One can ever assume to be what he is not, and to conceal what he is.
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Assume Conceal Himself
Deliberate before you begin; but, having carefully done so, execute with vigour.
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Beginning Care Execution Zeal
Of the cosmic Gods some make the world be, others animate it, others harmonize it, consisting as it does of different elements; the fourth class keep it when harmonized.
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Animate Consist Cosmos God Harmony
The glory of ancestors sheds a light around posterity; it allows neither good nor bad qualities to remain in obscurity.
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Ancestor Bad Glory Goodness Light Obscurity Quality
Fortune rules in all things, and advances and depresses things more out of her own will than right and justice.
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Depression Fortune Justice Rule Willing
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
Among intellectual pursuits, one of the most useful is the recording of past events.
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Event Intellectual Past Pursuit
Most honorable are services rendered to the State; even if they do not go beyond words, they are not to be despised.
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Beyond Despise Honor Service State Word
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

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