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Necessity makes even the timid brave.
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Brave Circumstance Coward Necessary
To desire the same things and to reject the same things, constitutes true friendship.
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Desire Friendship Reject
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
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
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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Advice Ancestor Help Light Powerful
It is better to use fair means and fail, than foul and conquer.
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Better Conquer Failure Right Rule Win
Ambition breaks the ties of blood, and forgets the obligations of gratitude.
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Ambition Blood Bond Break Forget Gratitude Obligation
The very life which we enjoy is short.
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Enjoyment Life One Liner Short
Among intellectual pursuits, one of the most useful is the recording of past events.
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Event Intellectual Past Pursuit
Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.
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Decay Fall Life Philosophy Rise
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
To someone seeking power, the poorest man is the most useful.
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Deep Man Poor Power Seek
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
A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
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Defeat Goodness Justice Man
The soul is the captain and ruler of the life of morals.
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Captain Life Moral Rule Soul
The poorest of men are the most useful to those seeking power.
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Man Poor Power Seek Useful

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