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No man underestimates the wrongs he suffers; many take them more seriously than is right.

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It is better to use fair means and fail, than foul and conquer.
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Better Conquer Failure Right Rule Win
Before you act consider; when you have considered, tis fully time to act.
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Act Action Consider Time Yourself
To someone seeking power, the poorest man is the most useful.
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Deep Man Poor Power Seek
No grief reaches the dead.
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Death Grief One Liner Reach
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
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
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
Harmony makes small things grow; lack of it makes great things decay.
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Decay Deep Greatness Growth Harmony
Everything that rises sets, and everything that grows, grows old.
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Growth Old Rise
Prosperity tries the souls even of the wise.
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Prosperity Soul Try Wisdom
Every bad precedent originated as a justifiable measure.
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Bad Measurement Origin
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
Fame is the shadow of passion standing in the light.
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Fame Light Passion Shadow Stand
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
The glory of ancestors sheds a light around posterity; it allows neither good nor bad qualities to remain in obscurity.
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Ancestor Bad Glory Goodness Light Obscurity Quality
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

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