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

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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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Ambition Drive Fake Lock Man Ready Thinking
No grief reaches the dead.
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Death Grief One Liner Reach
Fame is the shadow of passion standing in the light.
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Fame Light Passion Shadow Stand
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
Before you act consider; when you have considered, tis fully time to act.
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Act Action Consider Time Yourself
Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master.
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Desire Liberty Master Men
It is always easy to begin a war, but very difficult to stop one.
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Beginning Difficult Easy Oneself Stop
Everything destroyed is either resolved into the elements from which it came, or else vanishes into not-being. If things are resolved into the elements from which they came, then there will be others: else how did they come into being at all?
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Destroy Element Existence
In my opinion, he only may be truly said to live and enjoy his being who is engaged in some laudable pursuit, and acquires a name by some illustrious action, or useful art.
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Action Enjoyment Illustration Live Myself Name Opinion Pursuit True
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
A good man prefers to suffer rather than overcome injustice with evil.
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Evil Goodness Justice Man Preference
The firmest friendship is based on an identity of likes and dislikes.
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Friendship Identity Nature
Among intellectual pursuits, one of the most useful is the recording of past events.
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Event Intellectual Past Pursuit
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
Enough words, little wisdom.
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Enough Wisdom Word
Get good counsel before you begin; and when you have decided, act promptly.
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Act Counsel Decision Goodness Prompt
The Gods being good and making all things, there is no positive evil, it only comes by absence of good; just as darkness itself does not exist, but only comes about by absence of light.
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Absence Darkness Existence God Goodness Light Positive
The fame which is based on wealth or beauty is a frail and fleeting thing; but virtue shines for ages with undiminished lustre.
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Age Fame Luster Virtual Wealth
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
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
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
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
There were few who preferred honor to money.
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Honor Money Preference
It is sweet to surve one country by deeds, and it is not absurd to surve her by words.
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Country Herself Madness Sweet Word
The glory of riches and of beauty is frail and transitory; virtue remains bright and eternal.
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Beautiful Bright Forever Fragile Glory Rich
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
Greedy for the property of others, extravagant with his own
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Himself Own Property

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

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