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

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Deliberate before you begin; but, having carefully done so, execute with vigour.
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Beginning Care Execution Zeal
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
Among intellectual pursuits, one of the most useful is the recording of past events.
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Event Intellectual Past Pursuit
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
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
To have the same desires and the same aversion is assuredly a firm bond of friendship.
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Bond Desire Friendship
But few prize honour more than money.
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Honor Money Prize
The firmest friendship is based on an identity of likes and dislikes.
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Friendship Identity Nature
To desire the same things and to reject the same things, constitutes true friendship.
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Desire Friendship Reject
The fame which is based on wealth or beauty is a frail and fleeting thing; but virtue shines for ages with undiminished lustre.
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Age Fame Luster Virtual Wealth
All persons who are enthusiastic that they should transcend the other animals ought to strive with the utmost effort not to pass through a life of silence, like cattle, which nature has fashioned to be prone and obedient to their stomachs.
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Animal Effort Nature Obedience Person Stomach Transcend
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
Poor Britons, there is some good in them after all – they produced an oyster.
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Goodness Pearl Production
Sovereignty is easily preserved by the very arts by which it was originally created. When, however, energy has given place to indifference, and temperance and justice to passion and arrogance, then as the morals change so changes fortune.
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Arrogance Art Change Creation Easy Fortune Justice Original Place Preserve
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
The very life which we enjoy is short.
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Enjoyment Life One Liner Short

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

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