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

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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
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
Small endeavours obtain strength by unity of action: the most powerful are broken down by discord.
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Action Break Discord Small Strength Unity
The glory of wealth and of beauty is fleeting and frail; virtue is illustrious and everlasting.
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Beautiful Glory Illustration Virtue Wealth
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
There were few who preferred honor to money.
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Honor Money Preference
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
Get good counsel before you begin; and when you have decided, act promptly.
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Act Counsel Decision Goodness Prompt
The very life which we enjoy is short.
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Enjoyment Life One Liner Short
A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
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Defeat Goodness Justice Man
The poorest of men are the most useful to those seeking power.
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Man Poor Power Seek Useful
Just to stir things up seemed a great reward in itself.
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Greatness Reward
Everything that rises sets, and everything that grows, grows old.
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Growth Old Rise
The glory of riches and of beauty is frail and transitory; virtue remains bright and eternal.
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Beautiful Bright Forever Fragile Glory Rich
Distinguished ancestors shed a powerful light on their descendants, and forbid the concealment either of their merits or of their demerits.
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Advice Ancestor Help Light Powerful
The higher your station, the less your liberty.
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High Liberty Station Yourself

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