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Sovereignty is easily preserved by the very arts by which it was originally created. When, however, energy has given place to indifference, and temperance and justice to passion and arrogance, then as the morals change so changes fortune.

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But few prize honour more than money.
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Honor Money Prize
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
To desire the same things and to reject the same things, constitutes true friendship.
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Desire Friendship Reject
One can ever assume to be what he is not, and to conceal what he is.
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Assume Conceal Himself
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
For harmony makes small states great, while discord undermines the mightiest empires.
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Empire Greatness Harmony Small State
When the prizes fall to the lot of the wicked, you will not find many who are virtuous for virtue’s sake.
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Fall Finding Prize Virtue Yourself
No grief reaches the dead.
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Death Grief One Liner Reach
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
Necessity makes even the timid brave.
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Brave Circumstance Coward Necessary
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
The glory of wealth and of beauty is fleeting and frail; virtue is illustrious and everlasting.
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Beautiful Glory Illustration Virtue Wealth
Just to stir things up seemed a great reward in itself.
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Greatness Reward
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
Everything that rises sets, and everything that grows, grows old.
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Growth Old Rise
The firmest friendship is based on an identity of likes and dislikes.
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Friendship Identity Nature

Sovereignty is easily preserved by the very arts by which it was originally created. When, however, energy has given place to indifference, and temperance and justice to passion and arrogance, then as the morals change so changes fortune.

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Sovereignty is easily preserved by the very arts by which it was originally created. When, however, energy has given place to indifference, and temperance and justice to passion and arrogance, then as the morals change so changes fortune.

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