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The poorest of men are the most useful to those seeking power.

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Fame is the shadow of passion standing in the light.
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Fame Light Passion Shadow Stand
A good man prefers to suffer rather than overcome injustice with evil.
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Evil Goodness Justice Man Preference
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
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
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
Kings are more prone to mistrust the good than the bad; and they are always afraid of the virtues of others.
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Afraid Bad Goodness Trust Virtue
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
Necessity makes even the timid brave.
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Brave Circumstance Coward Necessary
Neither soldiers nor money can defend a king but only friends won by good deeds, merit, and honesty.
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Friendship Honesty Money Soldier
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
There were few who preferred honor to money.
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Honor Money Preference
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
No man underestimates the wrongs he suffers; many take them more seriously than is right.
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Himself Man Right Serious Suffering Wrong
Among intellectual pursuits, one of the most useful is the recording of past events.
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Event Intellectual Past Pursuit
Every bad precedent originated as a justifiable measure.
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Bad Measurement Origin

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