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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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Fortune rules in all things, and advances and depresses things more out of her own will than right and justice.
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Depression Fortune Justice Rule Willing
No grief reaches the dead.
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Death Grief One Liner Reach
The very life which we enjoy is short.
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Enjoyment Life One Liner Short
To someone seeking power, the poorest man is the most useful.
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Deep Man Poor Power Seek
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
It is sweet to surve one country by deeds, and it is not absurd to surve her by words.
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Country Herself Madness Sweet Word
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
We employ the mind to rule, the body to serve.
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Body Employment Mindset Rule Serve
Poor Britons, there is some good in them after all – they produced an oyster.
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Goodness Pearl Production
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
Advise well before you begin, and when you have maturely considered, then act with promptitude.
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Act Advice Beginning Mature
A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
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Defeat Goodness Justice Man
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
Everything that rises sets, and everything that grows, grows old.
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Growth Old Rise
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
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

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