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It is better to use fair means and fail, than foul and conquer.

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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
A good man prefers to suffer rather than overcome injustice with evil.
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Evil Goodness Justice Man Preference
A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
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Defeat Goodness Justice Man
No grief reaches the dead.
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Death Grief One Liner Reach
Before you act consider; when you have considered, tis fully time to act.
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Act Action Consider Time Yourself
To desire the same things and to reject the same things, constitutes true friendship.
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Desire Friendship Reject
To like and dislike the same things that is indeed true friendship.
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Bond Friendship True
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
By union the smallest states thrive. By discord the greatest are destroyed.
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Destroy Greatness Small State Thrive
The firmest friendship is based on an identity of likes and dislikes.
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Friendship Identity Nature
He that will be angry for anything will be angry for nothing.
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Angry Deep Emotion Feeling Himself
Everything destroyed is either resolved into the elements from which it came, or else vanishes into not-being. If things are resolved into the elements from which they came, then there will be others: else how did they come into being at all?
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Destroy Element Existence
Every bad precedent originated as a justifiable measure.
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Bad Measurement Origin
Just to stir things up seemed a great reward in itself.
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Greatness Reward
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
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

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