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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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Necessity makes even the timid brave.
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Brave Circumstance Coward Necessary
The poorest of men are the most useful to those seeking power.
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Man Poor Power Seek Useful
The higher your station, the less your liberty.
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High Liberty Station Yourself
Each man the architect of his own fate.
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Architect Fate Himself Man
To like and dislike the same things that is indeed true friendship.
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Bond Friendship True
One can ever assume to be what he is not, and to conceal what he is.
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Assume Conceal Himself
Just to stir things up seemed a great reward in itself.
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Greatness Reward
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
He that will be angry for anything will be angry for nothing.
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Angry Deep Emotion Feeling Himself
It is impossible that there should be so much providence in the last details, and none in the first principles. Then the arts of prophecy and of healing, which are part of the cosmos, come of the good providence of the Gods.
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Cosmos Detail God Healing Impossible Principle
Everything that rises sets, and everything that grows, grows old.
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Growth Old Rise
In battle it is the cowards who run the most risk; bravery is a rampart of defense.
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Battle Brave Coward Defense Risk Run
It is always easy enough to take up arms, but very difficult to lay them down; the commencement and the termination of war are not necessarily in the same hands; even a coward may begin, but the end comes only when the victors are willing.
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Coward Difficult Easy Enough Hands Necessary War Willing
The renown which riches or beauty confer is fleeting and frail mental excellence is a splendid and lasting possession.
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Beautiful Excellence Mental Possession Rich
Of the bodies in the cosmos, some imitate mind and move in orbits; some imitate soul and move in a straight line, fire and air upward, earth and water downward.
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Body Cosmos Down Imitation Move On Soul Water
It is better to use fair means and fail, than foul and conquer.
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Better Conquer Failure Right Rule Win

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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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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