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By union the smallest states thrive. By discord the greatest are destroyed.

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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
To desire the same things and to reject the same things, constitutes true friendship.
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Desire Friendship Reject
Prosperity tries the souls even of the wise.
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Prosperity Soul Try Wisdom
It is better to use fair means and fail, than foul and conquer.
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Better Conquer Failure Right Rule Win
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
In victory even the cowardly like to boast, while in adverse times even the brave are discredited.
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Brave Coward Credit Time Victory
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
Fame is the shadow of passion standing in the light.
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Fame Light Passion Shadow Stand
Get good counsel before you begin; and when you have decided, act promptly.
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Act Counsel Decision Goodness Prompt
The poorest of men are the most useful to those seeking power.
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Man Poor Power Seek Useful
It is sweet to surve one country by deeds, and it is not absurd to surve her by words.
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Country Herself Madness Sweet Word
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
There were few who preferred honor to money.
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Honor Money Preference
It is always easy to begin a war, but very difficult to stop one.
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Beginning Difficult Easy Oneself Stop
By union the smallest states thrive. By discord the greatest are destroyed.
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Destroy Greatness Small State Thrive
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

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