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The poorest of men are the most useful to those seeking power.

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All who consult on doubtful matters, should be void of hatred, friendship, anger, and pity.
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Angry Doubt Friendship Hate Pity
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
Poor Britons, there is some good in them after all – they produced an oyster.
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Goodness Pearl Production
Small communities grow great through harmony, great ones fall to pieces through discord.
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Community Discord Greatness Harmony Oneself Pieces Small
Neither the army nor the treasury, but friends, are the true supports of the throne; for friends cannot be collected by force of arms, nor purchased with money; they are the offspring of kindness and sincerity.
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Army Collection Force Kindness Kingdom Money Sincere Support Treasure True
A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
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Defeat Goodness Justice Man
Ambition drove many men to become false; to have one thought locked in the breast, another ready on the tongue.
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Ambition Drive Fake Lock Man Ready Thinking
Each man the architect of his own fate.
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Architect Fate Himself Man
Among intellectual pursuits, one of the most useful is the recording of past events.
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Event Intellectual Past Pursuit
Do as much as possible, and talk of yourself as little as possible.
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Hard Work Modesty Possible Talk Yourself
For harmony makes small states great, while discord undermines the mightiest empires.
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Empire Greatness Harmony Small State
Since we have received everything from the Gods, and it is right to pay the giver some tithe of his gifts, we pay such a tithe of possessions in votive offering, of bodies in gifts of (hair and) adornment, and of life in sacrifices.
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Body Gift God Pay Possession Received Sacrifice
Just to stir things up seemed a great reward in itself.
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Greatness Reward
Necessity makes even the timid brave.
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Brave Circumstance Coward Necessary
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
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

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