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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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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
Necessity makes even the timid brave.
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Brave Circumstance Coward Necessary
The very life which we enjoy is short.
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Enjoyment Life One Liner Short
Not by vows nor by womanish prayers is the help of the gods obtained; success comes through vigilance, energy, wise counsel.
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Counsel Energy God Help Prayer Promise Success Vow Wisdom
No grief reaches the dead.
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Death Grief One Liner Reach
Enough words, little wisdom.
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Enough Wisdom Word
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 a law of human nature that in victory even the coward may boast of his prowess, while defeat injures the reputation even of the brave.
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Brave Defeat Himself Human Law Nature Reputation Victory
All who consult on doubtful matters, should be void of hatred, friendship, anger, and pity.
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Angry Doubt Friendship Hate Pity
In my opinion it is less shameful for a king to be overcome by force of arms than by bribery.
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Arms Bribe Force Opinion Shame
To hope for safety in flight, when you have turned away from the enemy the arms by which the body is defended, is indeed madness. In battle those who are most afraid are always in most danger; but courage is equivalent to rampart.
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Afraid Body Courage Defeat Enemy Equivalent Hope Madness Safety
The higher your station, the less your liberty.
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High Liberty Station Yourself
Prosperity tries the souls even of the wise.
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Prosperity Soul Try Wisdom
The firmest friendship is based on an identity of likes and dislikes.
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Friendship Identity Nature
By the wicked the good conduct of others is always dreaded.
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Dread Goodness Wicked
For harmony makes small states great, while discord undermines the mightiest empires.
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Empire Greatness Harmony Small State
Small communities grow great through harmony, great ones fall to pieces through discord.
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Community Discord Greatness Harmony Oneself Pieces Small
Poor Britons, there is some good in them after all – they produced an oyster.
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Goodness Pearl Production
By union the smallest states thrive. By discord the greatest are destroyed.
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Destroy Greatness Small State Thrive
Every bad precedent originated as a justifiable measure.
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Bad Measurement Origin
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
A good man prefers to suffer rather than overcome injustice with evil.
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Evil Goodness Justice Man Preference
It is always easy to begin a war, but very difficult to stop one.
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Beginning Difficult Easy Oneself Stop
To desire the same things and to reject the same things, constitutes true friendship.
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Desire Friendship Reject
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
The poorest of men are the most useful to those seeking power.
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Man Poor Power Seek Useful
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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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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