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Most honorable are services rendered to the State; even if they do not go beyond words, they are not to be despised.

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He that will be angry for anything will be angry for nothing.
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Angry Deep Emotion Feeling Himself
Small endeavours obtain strength by unity of action: the most powerful are broken down by discord.
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Action Break Discord Small Strength Unity
A good man prefers to suffer rather than overcome injustice with evil.
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Evil Goodness Justice Man Preference
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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Jealous Method Myself Win
Just to stir things up seemed a great reward in itself.
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Greatness Reward
The fame that goes with wealth and beauty is fleeting and fragile; intellectual superiority is a possession glorious and eternal.
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Beautiful Fame Forever Glory Intellectual Possession Wealth
To desire the same things and to reject the same things, constitutes true friendship.
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Desire Friendship Reject
Greedy for the property of others, extravagant with his own
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Himself Own Property
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
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
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
All men who would surpass the other animals should do their best not to pass through life silently like the beasts whom nature made prone, obedient to their bellies.
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Animal Best Life Man Obedience Stomach Through
The firmest friendship is based on an identity of likes and dislikes.
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Friendship Identity Nature
Before you act consider; when you have considered, tis fully time to act.
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Act Action Consider Time Yourself
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

Most honorable are services rendered to the State; even if they do not go beyond words, they are not to be despised.

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