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

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There were few who preferred honor to money.
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Honor Money Preference
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
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
A good man prefers to suffer rather than overcome injustice with evil.
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Evil Goodness Justice Man Preference
The higher your station, the less your liberty.
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High Liberty Station Yourself
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
But assuredly Fortune rules in all things; she raised to eminence or buries in oblivion everything from caprice rather than from well-regulated principle.
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Assurance Bury Fate Fortune Principle Raise Rule
Get good counsel before you begin; and when you have decided, act promptly.
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Act Counsel Decision Goodness Prompt
Enough words, little wisdom.
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Enough Wisdom Word
All men who would surpass the other animals should do their best not to pass through life silently like the beasts whom nature made prone, obedient to their bellies.
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Animal Best Life Man Obedience Stomach Through
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
Deliberate before you begin; but, having carefully done so, execute with vigour.
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Beginning Care Execution Zeal
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
Necessity makes even the timid brave.
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Brave Circumstance Coward Necessary
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

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

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