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The higher your station, the less your liberty.

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But few prize honour more than money.
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Honor Money Prize
A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
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Defeat Goodness Justice Man
Small communities grow great through harmony, great ones fall to pieces through discord.
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Community Discord Greatness Harmony Oneself Pieces Small
Each man the architect of his own fate.
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Architect Fate Himself Man
It is always easy to begin a war, but very difficult to stop one.
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Beginning Difficult Easy Oneself Stop
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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Arrogance Art Change Creation Easy Fortune Justice Original Place Preserve
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
The fame which is based on wealth or beauty is a frail and fleeting thing; but virtue shines for ages with undiminished lustre.
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Age Fame Luster Virtual Wealth
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 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
Everything that rises sets, and everything that grows, grows old.
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Growth Old Rise
Small endeavours obtain strength by unity of action: the most powerful are broken down by discord.
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Action Break Discord Small Strength Unity
Just to stir things up seemed a great reward in itself.
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Greatness Reward
The firmest friendship is based on an identity of likes and dislikes.
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Friendship Identity Nature
No man underestimates the wrongs he suffers; many take them more seriously than is right.
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Himself Man Right Serious Suffering Wrong
The very life which we enjoy is short.
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Enjoyment Life One Liner Short

The higher your station, the less your liberty.

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