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In my own case, who have spent my whole life in the practice of virtue, right conduct from habitual has become natural.

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To like and dislike the same things that is indeed true friendship.
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Bond Friendship True
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
For harmony makes small states great, while discord undermines the mightiest empires.
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Empire Greatness Harmony Small State
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
Necessity makes even the timid brave.
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Brave Circumstance Coward Necessary
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
But at power or wealth, for the sake of which wars, and all kinds of strife, arise among mankind, we do not aim; we desire only our liberty, which no honorable man relinquishes but with his life.
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Desire Himself Kind Liberty Life Man Power War Wealth
They envy the distinction I have won; let them therefore, envy my toils, my honesty, and the methods by which I gained it.
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Jealous Method Myself Win
Ambition drove many men to become false; to have one thought locked in the breast, another ready on the tongue.
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Ambition Drive Fake Lock Man Ready Thinking
Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.
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Decay Fall Life Philosophy Rise
Each man the architect of his own fate.
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Architect Fate Himself Man
The glory of riches and of beauty is frail and transitory; virtue remains bright and eternal.
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Beautiful Bright Forever Fragile Glory Rich
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
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
A good man prefers to suffer rather than overcome injustice with evil.
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Evil Goodness Justice Man Preference
Before you act consider; when you have considered, tis fully time to act.
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Act Action Consider Time Yourself

In my own case, who have spent my whole life in the practice of virtue, right conduct from habitual has become natural.

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