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Ambition breaks the ties of blood, and forgets the obligations of gratitude.

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Not by vows nor by womanish prayers is the help of the gods obtained; success comes through vigilance, energy, wise counsel.
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Counsel Energy God Help Prayer Promise Success Vow Wisdom
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
Do as much as possible, and talk of yourself as little as possible.
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Hard Work Modesty Possible Talk Yourself
To someone seeking power, the poorest man is the most useful.
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Deep Man Poor Power Seek
A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
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Defeat Goodness Justice Man
To have the same desires and the same aversion is assuredly a firm bond of friendship.
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Bond Desire Friendship
Poor Britons, there is some good in them after all – they produced an oyster.
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Goodness Pearl Production
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
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
Fame is the shadow of passion standing in the light.
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Fame Light Passion Shadow Stand
Before you act consider; when you have considered, tis fully time to act.
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Act Action Consider Time Yourself
To desire the same things and to reject the same things, constitutes true friendship.
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Desire Friendship Reject
By union the smallest states thrive. By discord the greatest are destroyed.
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Destroy Greatness Small State Thrive
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
Small communities grow great through harmony, great ones fall to pieces through discord.
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Community Discord Greatness Harmony Oneself Pieces Small
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

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