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All who consult on doubtful matters, should be void of hatred, friendship, anger, and pity.
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Angry Doubt Friendship Hate Pity
The soul is the captain and ruler of the life of morals.
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Captain Life Moral Rule Soul
Most honorable are services rendered to the State; even if they do not go beyond words, they are not to be despised.
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Beyond Despise Honor Service State Word
It is always easy to begin a war, but very difficult to stop one.
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Beginning Difficult Easy Oneself Stop
Neither the army nor the treasury, but friends, are the true supports of the throne; for friends cannot be collected by force of arms, nor purchased with money; they are the offspring of kindness and sincerity.
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Army Collection Force Kindness Kingdom Money Sincere Support Treasure True
Poor Britons, there is some good in them after all – they produced an oyster.
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Goodness Pearl Production
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
But few prize honour more than money.
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Honor Money Prize
No mortal man has ever served at the same time his passions and his best interests.
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Best Interest Man Mortal Passion Serve Time
The man who is roused neither by glory nor by danger it is in vain to exhort; terror closes the ears of the mind.
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Dangerous Glory Man Mindset Terror
There were few who preferred honor to money.
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Honor Money Preference
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 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
For harmony makes small states great, while discord undermines the mightiest empires.
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Empire Greatness Harmony Small State
Necessity makes even the timid brave.
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Brave Circumstance Coward Necessary
Among intellectual pursuits, one of the most useful is the recording of past events.
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Event Intellectual Past Pursuit

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