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In victory even the cowardly like to boast, while in adverse times even the brave are discredited.

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A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
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Defeat Goodness Justice Man
Deliberate before you begin; but, having carefully done so, execute with vigour.
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Beginning Care Execution Zeal
It is better to use fair means and fail, than foul and conquer.
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Better Conquer Failure Right Rule Win
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 someone seeking power, the poorest man is the most useful.
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Deep Man Poor Power Seek
Fame is the shadow of passion standing in the light.
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Fame Light Passion Shadow Stand
We employ the mind to rule, the body to serve.
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Body Employment Mindset Rule Serve
Each man the architect of his own fate.
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Architect Fate Himself Man
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
Enough words, little wisdom.
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Enough Wisdom Word
The very life which we enjoy is short.
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Enjoyment Life One Liner Short
Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.
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Decay Fall Life Philosophy Rise
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
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
In victory even the cowardly like to boast, while in adverse times even the brave are discredited.
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Brave Coward Credit Time Victory
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

In victory even the cowardly like to boast, while in adverse times even the brave are discredited.

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