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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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A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
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Defeat Goodness Justice Man
Get good counsel before you begin; and when you have decided, act promptly.
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Act Counsel Decision Goodness Prompt
Greedy for the property of others, extravagant with his own
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Himself Own Property
Poor Britons, there is some good in them after all – they produced an oyster.
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Goodness Pearl Production
All men who would surpass the other animals should do their best not to pass through life silently like the beasts whom nature made prone, obedient to their bellies.
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Animal Best Life Man Obedience Stomach Through
Deliberate before you begin; but, having carefully done so, execute with vigour.
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Beginning Care Execution Zeal
Those most moved to tears by every word of a preacher are generally weak and a rascal when the feelings evaporate.
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Evaporate Feeling General Move Tears Weakness Word
By union the smallest states thrive. By discord the greatest are destroyed.
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Destroy Greatness Small State Thrive
Among intellectual pursuits, one of the most useful is the recording of past events.
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Event Intellectual Past Pursuit
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
He that will be angry for anything will be angry for nothing.
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Angry Deep Emotion Feeling Himself
The poorest of men are the most useful to those seeking power.
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Man Poor Power Seek Useful
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
Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.
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Decay Fall Life Philosophy Rise
To someone seeking power, the poorest man is the most useful.
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Deep Man Poor Power Seek
The Romans assisted their allies and friends, and acquired friendships by giving rather than receiving kindness.
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Assistance Friendship Kindness Receive Roman

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