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Get good counsel before you begin; and when you have decided, act promptly.

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To desire the same things and to reject the same things, constitutes true friendship.
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Desire Friendship Reject
Small communities grow great through harmony, great ones fall to pieces through discord.
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Community Discord Greatness Harmony Oneself Pieces Small
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
By the wicked the good conduct of others is always dreaded.
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Dread Goodness Wicked
Necessity makes even the timid brave.
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Brave Circumstance Coward Necessary
One can ever assume to be what he is not, and to conceal what he is.
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Assume Conceal Himself
To hope for safety in flight, when you have turned away from the enemy the arms by which the body is defended, is indeed madness. In battle those who are most afraid are always in most danger; but courage is equivalent to rampart.
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Afraid Body Courage Defeat Enemy Equivalent Hope Madness Safety
By union the smallest states thrive. By discord the greatest are destroyed.
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Destroy Greatness Small State Thrive
A good man prefers to suffer rather than overcome injustice with evil.
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Evil Goodness Justice Man Preference
Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.
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Decay Fall Life Philosophy Rise
Every bad precedent originated as a justifiable measure.
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Bad Measurement Origin
To like and dislike the same things that is indeed true friendship.
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Bond Friendship True
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
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
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
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

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