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

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When the prizes fall to the lot of the wicked, you will not find many who are virtuous for virtue’s sake.
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Fall Finding Prize Virtue Yourself
Deliberate before you begin; but, having carefully done so, execute with vigour.
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Beginning Care Execution Zeal
He that will be angry for anything will be angry for nothing.
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Angry Deep Emotion Feeling Himself
Necessity makes even the timid brave.
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Brave Circumstance Coward Necessary
To desire the same things and to reject the same things, constitutes true friendship.
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Desire Friendship Reject
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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Counsel Energy God Help Prayer Promise Success Vow Wisdom
A good man prefers to suffer rather than overcome injustice with evil.
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Evil Goodness Justice Man Preference
The Gods being good and making all things, there is no positive evil, it only comes by absence of good; just as darkness itself does not exist, but only comes about by absence of light.
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Absence Darkness Existence God Goodness Light Positive
There were few who preferred honor to money.
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Honor Money Preference
Ambition breaks the ties of blood, and forgets the obligations of gratitude.
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Ambition Blood Bond Break Forget Gratitude Obligation
Every bad precedent originated as a justifiable measure.
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Bad Measurement Origin
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
Greedy for the property of others, extravagant with his own
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Himself Own Property
Enough words, little wisdom.
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Enough Wisdom Word
Do as much as possible, and talk of yourself as little as possible.
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Hard Work Modesty Possible Talk Yourself
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

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