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It is always easy to begin a war, but very difficult to stop one.

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All men who would surpass the other animals should do their best not to pass through life silently like the beasts whom nature made prone, obedient to their bellies.
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Animal Best Life Man Obedience Stomach Through
But few prize honour more than money.
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Honor Money Prize
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
The glory of ancestors sheds a light around posterity; it allows neither good nor bad qualities to remain in obscurity.
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Ancestor Bad Glory Goodness Light Obscurity Quality
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
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
Ambition breaks the ties of blood, and forgets the obligations of gratitude.
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Ambition Blood Bond Break Forget Gratitude Obligation
But the case has proved that to be true which Appius says in his songs, that each man is the maker of his own fate.
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Creator Fate Man Song True
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
By the wicked the good conduct of others is always dreaded.
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Dread Goodness Wicked
For men who had easily endured hardship, danger and difficult uncertainty, leisure and riches, though in some ways desirable, proved burdensome and a source of grief.
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Dangerous Desire Easy Endurance Men Source Way
One can ever assume to be what he is not, and to conceal what he is.
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Assume Conceal Himself
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 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
Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.
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Decay Fall Life Philosophy Rise
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

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