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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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The poorest of men are the most useful to those seeking power.
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Man Poor Power Seek Useful
Poor Britons, there is some good in them after all – they produced an oyster.
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Goodness Pearl Production
It is always easy to begin a war, but very difficult to stop one.
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Beginning Difficult Easy Oneself Stop
It is always easy enough to take up arms, but very difficult to lay them down; the commencement and the termination of war are not necessarily in the same hands; even a coward may begin, but the end comes only when the victors are willing.
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Coward Difficult Easy Enough Hands Necessary War Willing
The glory of wealth and of beauty is fleeting and frail; virtue is illustrious and everlasting.
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Beautiful Glory Illustration Virtue Wealth
There were few who preferred honor to money.
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Honor Money Preference
To like and dislike the same things that is indeed true friendship.
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Bond Friendship True
Just to stir things up seemed a great reward in itself.
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Greatness Reward
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
Sovereignty is easily preserved by the very arts by which it was originally created. When, however, energy has given place to indifference, and temperance and justice to passion and arrogance, then as the morals change so changes fortune.
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Arrogance Art Change Creation Easy Fortune Justice Original Place Preserve
Ambition breaks the ties of blood, and forgets the obligations of gratitude.
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Ambition Blood Bond Break Forget Gratitude Obligation
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
Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master.
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Desire Liberty Master Men
The higher your station, the less your liberty.
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High Liberty Station Yourself
Prosperity tries the souls even of the wise.
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Prosperity Soul Try Wisdom
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

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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