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No mortal man has ever served at the same time his passions and his best interests.

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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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Beginning Blessing Decay Fortune Health
Do as much as possible, and talk of yourself as little as possible.
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Hard Work Modesty Possible Talk Yourself
Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.
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Decay Fall Life Philosophy Rise
We employ the mind to rule, the body to serve.
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Body Employment Mindset Rule Serve
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
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
The soul is the captain and ruler of the life of morals.
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Captain Life Moral Rule Soul
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
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
Before you act consider; when you have considered, tis fully time to act.
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Act Action Consider Time Yourself
It is always easy to begin a war, but very difficult to stop one.
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Beginning Difficult Easy Oneself Stop
Poor Britons, there is some good in them after all – they produced an oyster.
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Goodness Pearl Production
Of the cosmic Gods some make the world be, others animate it, others harmonize it, consisting as it does of different elements; the fourth class keep it when harmonized.
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Animate Consist Cosmos God Harmony
It is better to use fair means and fail, than foul and conquer.
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Better Conquer Failure Right Rule Win
Greedy for the property of others, extravagant with his own
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Himself Own Property
Necessity makes even the timid brave.
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Brave Circumstance Coward Necessary

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