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

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Small communities grow great through harmony, great ones fall to pieces through discord.
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Community Discord Greatness Harmony Oneself Pieces Small
By union the smallest states thrive. By discord the greatest are destroyed.
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Destroy Greatness Small State Thrive
Distinguished ancestors shed a powerful light on their descendants, and forbid the concealment either of their merits or of their demerits.
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Advice Ancestor Help Light Powerful
Before you act consider; when you have considered, tis fully time to act.
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Act Action Consider Time Yourself
Deliberate before you begin; but, having carefully done so, execute with vigour.
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Beginning Care Execution Zeal
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
For men who had easily endured hardship, danger and difficult uncertainty, leisure and riches, though in some ways desirable, proved burdensome and a source of grief.
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Dangerous Desire Easy Endurance Men Source Way
To like and dislike the same things that is indeed true friendship.
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Bond Friendship True
To someone seeking power, the poorest man is the most useful.
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Deep Man Poor Power Seek
Just to stir things up seemed a great reward in itself.
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Greatness Reward
Each man the architect of his own fate.
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Architect Fate Himself Man
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 very life which we enjoy is short.
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Enjoyment Life One Liner Short
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
Small endeavours obtain strength by unity of action: the most powerful are broken down by discord.
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Action Break Discord Small Strength Unity
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

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