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In victory even the cowardly like to boast, while in adverse times even the brave are discredited.

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Deliberate before you begin; but, having carefully done so, execute with vigour.
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Beginning Care Execution Zeal
Get good counsel before you begin; and when you have decided, act promptly.
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Act Counsel Decision Goodness Prompt
But few prize honour more than money.
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Honor Money Prize
It is always easy to begin a war, but very difficult to stop one.
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Beginning Difficult Easy Oneself Stop
Fame is the shadow of passion standing in the light.
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Fame Light Passion Shadow Stand
For harmony makes small states great, while discord undermines the mightiest empires.
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Empire Greatness Harmony Small State
We employ the mind to rule, the body to serve.
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Body Employment Mindset Rule Serve
Necessity makes even the timid brave.
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Brave Circumstance Coward Necessary
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
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
Ambition breaks the ties of blood, and forgets the obligations of gratitude.
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Ambition Blood Bond Break Forget Gratitude Obligation
But assuredly Fortune rules in all things; she raised to eminence or buries in oblivion everything from caprice rather than from well-regulated principle.
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Assurance Bury Fate Fortune Principle Raise Rule
Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master.
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Desire Liberty Master Men
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
In victory even the cowardly like to boast, while in adverse times even the brave are discredited.
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Brave Coward Credit Time Victory
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

In victory even the cowardly like to boast, while in adverse times even the brave are discredited.

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