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Just to stir things up seemed a great reward in itself.

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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
The Romans assisted their allies and friends, and acquired friendships by giving rather than receiving kindness.
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Assistance Friendship Kindness Receive Roman
It is always easy to begin a war, but very difficult to stop one.
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Beginning Difficult Easy Oneself Stop
Every bad precedent originated as a justifiable measure.
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Bad Measurement Origin
There were few who preferred honor to money.
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Honor Money Preference
By union the smallest states thrive. By discord the greatest are destroyed.
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Destroy Greatness Small State Thrive
As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.
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Beginning Blessing Decay Fortune Health
A good man prefers to suffer rather than overcome injustice with evil.
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Evil Goodness Justice Man Preference
When the prizes fall to the lot of the wicked, you will not find many who are virtuous for virtue’s sake.
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Fall Finding Prize Virtue Yourself
In my own case, who have spent my whole life in the practice of virtue, right conduct from habitual has become natural.
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Character Life Natural Practice Right Virtue
The very life which we enjoy is short.
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Enjoyment Life One Liner Short
One can ever assume to be what he is not, and to conceal what he is.
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Assume Conceal Himself
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
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
Enough words, little wisdom.
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Enough Wisdom Word

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