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They envy the distinction I have won; let them therefore, envy my toils, my honesty, and the methods by which I gained it.

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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
We employ the mind to rule, the body to serve.
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Body Employment Mindset Rule Serve
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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Animal Effort Nature Obedience Person Stomach Transcend
The soul is the captain and ruler of the life of morals.
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Captain Life Moral Rule Soul
Get good counsel before you begin; and when you have decided, act promptly.
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Act Counsel Decision Goodness Prompt
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
Sovereignty is easily preserved by the very arts by which it was originally created. When, however, energy has given place to indifference, and temperance and justice to passion and arrogance, then as the morals change so changes fortune.
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Arrogance Art Change Creation Easy Fortune Justice Original Place Preserve
To have the same desires and the same aversion is assuredly a firm bond of friendship.
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Bond Desire Friendship
Each man the architect of his own fate.
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Architect Fate Himself Man
A good man prefers to suffer rather than overcome injustice with evil.
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Evil Goodness Justice Man Preference
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
There were few who preferred honor to money.
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Honor Money Preference
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
Not by vows nor by womanish prayers is the help of the gods obtained; success comes through vigilance, energy, wise counsel.
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Every bad precedent originated as a justifiable measure.
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Bad Measurement Origin
A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
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Defeat Goodness Justice Man

They envy the distinction I have won; let them therefore, envy my toils, my honesty, and the methods by which I gained it.

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