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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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Among intellectual pursuits, one of the most useful is the recording of past events.
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Event Intellectual Past Pursuit
The glory of ancestors sheds a light around posterity; it allows neither good nor bad qualities to remain in obscurity.
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Ancestor Bad Glory Goodness Light Obscurity Quality
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
By the wicked the good conduct of others is always dreaded.
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Dread Goodness Wicked
To have the same desires and the same aversion is assuredly a firm bond of friendship.
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Bond Desire Friendship
We employ the mind to rule, the body to serve.
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Body Employment Mindset Rule Serve
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
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
To someone seeking power, the poorest man is the most useful.
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Deep Man Poor Power Seek
Each man the architect of his own fate.
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Architect Fate Himself Man
In battle it is the cowards who run the most risk; bravery is a rampart of defense.
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Battle Brave Coward Defense Risk Run
He that will be angry for anything will be angry for nothing.
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Angry Deep Emotion Feeling Himself
In my opinion it is less shameful for a king to be overcome by force of arms than by bribery.
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Arms Bribe Force Opinion Shame
All those who offer an opinion on any doubtful point should first clear their minds of every sentiment of dislike, friendship, anger or pity.
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Angry Doubt Friendship Offering Opinion
The poorest of men are the most useful to those seeking power.
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Man Poor Power Seek Useful
It is impossible that there should be so much providence in the last details, and none in the first principles. Then the arts of prophecy and of healing, which are part of the cosmos, come of the good providence of the Gods.
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Cosmos Detail God Healing Impossible Principle

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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