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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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The soul is the captain and ruler of the life of morals.
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Captain Life Moral Rule Soul
The poorest of men are the most useful to those seeking power.
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Man Poor Power Seek Useful
To like and dislike the same things that is indeed true friendship.
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Bond Friendship True
A good man prefers to suffer rather than overcome injustice with evil.
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Evil Goodness Justice Man Preference
But assuredly Fortune rules in all things; she raised to eminence or buries in oblivion everything from caprice rather than from well-regulated principle.
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Assurance Bury Fate Fortune Principle Raise Rule
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
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
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
One can ever assume to be what he is not, and to conceal what he is.
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Assume Conceal Himself
To someone seeking power, the poorest man is the most useful.
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Deep Man Poor Power Seek
Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.
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Decay Fall Life Philosophy Rise
Of the cosmic Gods some make the world be, others animate it, others harmonize it, consisting as it does of different elements; the fourth class keep it when harmonized.
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Animate Consist Cosmos God Harmony
It is always easy to begin a war, but very difficult to stop one.
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Beginning Difficult Easy Oneself Stop
Everything that rises sets, and everything that grows, grows old.
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Growth Old Rise
To desire the same things and to reject the same things, constitutes true friendship.
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Desire Friendship Reject
Just to stir things up seemed a great reward in itself.
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Greatness Reward

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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