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Ambition drove many men to become false; to have one thought locked in the breast, another ready on the tongue.

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Poor Britons, there is some good in them after all – they produced an oyster.
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Goodness Pearl Production
It is always easy enough to take up arms, but very difficult to lay them down; the commencement and the termination of war are not necessarily in the same hands; even a coward may begin, but the end comes only when the victors are willing.
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Coward Difficult Easy Enough Hands Necessary War Willing
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
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
Fortune rules in all things, and advances and depresses things more out of her own will than right and justice.
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Depression Fortune Justice Rule Willing
Of the bodies in the cosmos, some imitate mind and move in orbits; some imitate soul and move in a straight line, fire and air upward, earth and water downward.
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Body Cosmos Down Imitation Move On Soul Water
It is always easy to begin a war, but very difficult to stop one.
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Beginning Difficult Easy Oneself Stop
There were few who preferred honor to money.
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Honor Money Preference
The higher your station, the less your liberty.
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High Liberty Station Yourself
By union the smallest states thrive. By discord the greatest are destroyed.
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Destroy Greatness Small State Thrive
Deliberate before you begin; but, having carefully done so, execute with vigour.
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Beginning Care Execution Zeal
One can ever assume to be what he is not, and to conceal what he is.
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Assume Conceal Himself
In battle it is the cowards who run the most risk; bravery is a rampart of defense.
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Battle Brave Coward Defense Risk Run
Enough words, little wisdom.
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Enough Wisdom Word
Greedy for the property of others, extravagant with his own
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Himself Own Property
By the wicked the good conduct of others is always dreaded.
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Dread Goodness Wicked
The fame that goes with wealth and beauty is fleeting and fragile; intellectual superiority is a possession glorious and eternal.
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Beautiful Fame Forever Glory Intellectual Possession Wealth
Advise well before you begin, and when you have maturely considered, then act with promptitude.
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Act Advice Beginning Mature
Do as much as possible, and talk of yourself as little as possible.
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Hard Work Modesty Possible Talk Yourself
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 soul is the captain and ruler of the life of morals.
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Captain Life Moral Rule Soul
The poorest of men are the most useful to those seeking power.
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Man Poor Power Seek Useful
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
Prosperity tries the souls even of the wise.
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Prosperity Soul Try Wisdom
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
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
Just to stir things up seemed a great reward in itself.
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Greatness Reward

Ambition drove many men to become false; to have one thought locked in the breast, another ready on the tongue.

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