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

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The higher your station, the less your liberty.
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High Liberty Station Yourself
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
Ambition breaks the ties of blood, and forgets the obligations of gratitude.
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Ambition Blood Bond Break Forget Gratitude Obligation
Get good counsel before you begin; and when you have decided, act promptly.
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Act Counsel Decision Goodness Prompt
It is better to use fair means and fail, than foul and conquer.
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Better Conquer Failure Right Rule Win
Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master.
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Desire Liberty Master Men
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
Necessity makes even the timid brave.
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Brave Circumstance Coward Necessary
Neither soldiers nor money can defend a king but only friends won by good deeds, merit, and honesty.
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Friendship Honesty Money Soldier
The firmest friendship is based on an identity of likes and dislikes.
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Friendship Identity Nature
Among intellectual pursuits, one of the most useful is the recording of past events.
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Event Intellectual Past Pursuit
Those most moved to tears by every word of a preacher are generally weak and a rascal when the feelings evaporate.
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Evaporate Feeling General Move Tears Weakness Word
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
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
One can ever assume to be what he is not, and to conceal what he is.
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Assume Conceal Himself
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

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