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Fortune rules in all things, and advances and depresses things more out of her own will than right and justice.

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Deliberate before you begin; but, having carefully done so, execute with vigour.
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Beginning Care Execution Zeal
A good man prefers to suffer rather than overcome injustice with evil.
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Evil Goodness Justice Man Preference
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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Character Life Natural Practice Right Virtue
Harmony makes small things grow; lack of it makes great things decay.
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Decay Deep Greatness Growth Harmony
Necessity makes even the timid brave.
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Brave Circumstance Coward Necessary
Just to stir things up seemed a great reward in itself.
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Greatness Reward
Greedy for the property of others, extravagant with his own
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Himself Own Property
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
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
There were few who preferred honor to money.
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Honor Money Preference
Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master.
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Desire Liberty Master Men
The Gods being good and making all things, there is no positive evil, it only comes by absence of good; just as darkness itself does not exist, but only comes about by absence of light.
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Absence Darkness Existence God Goodness Light Positive
No grief reaches the dead.
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Death Grief One Liner Reach
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
Enough words, little wisdom.
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Enough Wisdom Word
Everything that rises sets, and everything that grows, grows old.
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Growth Old Rise

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