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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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Just to stir things up seemed a great reward in itself.
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Greatness Reward
To like and dislike the same things that is indeed true friendship.
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Bond Friendship True
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
Deliberate before you begin; but, having carefully done so, execute with vigour.
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Beginning Care Execution Zeal
One can ever assume to be what he is not, and to conceal what he is.
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Assume Conceal Himself
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
But at power or wealth, for the sake of which wars, and all kinds of strife, arise among mankind, we do not aim; we desire only our liberty, which no honorable man relinquishes but with his life.
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Desire Himself Kind Liberty Life Man Power War Wealth
But few prize honour more than money.
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Honor Money Prize
We employ the mind to rule, the body to serve.
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Body Employment Mindset Rule Serve
The soul is the captain and ruler of the life of morals.
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Captain Life Moral Rule Soul
Enough words, little wisdom.
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Enough Wisdom Word
Harmony makes small things grow; lack of it makes great things decay.
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Decay Deep Greatness Growth Harmony
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 have the same desires and the same aversion is assuredly a firm bond of friendship.
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Bond Desire Friendship
A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
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Defeat Goodness Justice Man
Greedy for the property of others, extravagant with his own
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Himself Own Property

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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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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