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Greedy for the property of others, extravagant with his own

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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
Neither soldiers nor money can defend a king but only friends won by good deeds, merit, and honesty.
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Friendship Honesty Money Soldier
Among intellectual pursuits, one of the most useful is the recording of past events.
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Event Intellectual Past Pursuit
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
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
No mortal man has ever served at the same time his passions and his best interests.
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Best Interest Man Mortal Passion Serve Time
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
Most honorable are services rendered to the State; even if they do not go beyond words, they are not to be despised.
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Beyond Despise Honor Service State Word
It is always easy to begin a war, but very difficult to stop one.
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Beginning Difficult Easy Oneself Stop
To have the same desires and the same aversion is assuredly a firm bond of friendship.
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Bond Desire Friendship
In my opinion, he only may be truly said to live and enjoy his being who is engaged in some laudable pursuit, and acquires a name by some illustrious action, or useful art.
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Action Enjoyment Illustration Live Myself Name Opinion Pursuit True
There were few who preferred honor to money.
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Honor Money Preference
The soul is the captain and ruler of the life of morals.
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Captain Life Moral Rule Soul
Every bad precedent originated as a justifiable measure.
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Bad Measurement Origin
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

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