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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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Every bad precedent originated as a justifiable measure.
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Bad Measurement Origin
Necessity makes even the timid brave.
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Brave Circumstance Coward Necessary
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
Get good counsel before you begin; and when you have decided, act promptly.
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Act Counsel Decision Goodness Prompt
One can ever assume to be what he is not, and to conceal what he is.
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Assume Conceal Himself
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
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
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
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
Prosperity tries the souls even of the wise.
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Prosperity Soul Try Wisdom
Deliberate before you begin; but, having carefully done so, execute with vigour.
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Beginning Care Execution Zeal
There were few who preferred honor to money.
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Honor Money Preference
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
Ambition breaks the ties of blood, and forgets the obligations of gratitude.
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Ambition Blood Bond Break Forget Gratitude Obligation
Harmony makes small things grow; lack of it makes great things decay.
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Decay Deep Greatness Growth Harmony
Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.
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Decay Fall Life Philosophy Rise

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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