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

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Small communities grow great through harmony, great ones fall to pieces through discord.
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Community Discord Greatness Harmony Oneself Pieces Small
Necessity makes even the timid brave.
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Brave Circumstance Coward Necessary
Do as much as possible, and talk of yourself as little as possible.
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Hard Work Modesty Possible Talk Yourself
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
It is always easy enough to take up arms, but very difficult to lay them down; the commencement and the termination of war are not necessarily in the same hands; even a coward may begin, but the end comes only when the victors are willing.
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Coward Difficult Easy Enough Hands Necessary War Willing
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
Of the cosmic Gods some make the world be, others animate it, others harmonize it, consisting as it does of different elements; the fourth class keep it when harmonized.
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Animate Consist Cosmos God Harmony
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
The renown which riches or beauty confer is fleeting and frail mental excellence is a splendid and lasting possession.
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Beautiful Excellence Mental Possession Rich
A good man prefers to suffer rather than overcome injustice with evil.
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Evil Goodness Justice Man Preference
As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.
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Beginning Blessing Decay Fortune Health
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
To someone seeking power, the poorest man is the most useful.
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Deep Man Poor Power Seek
To desire the same things and to reject the same things, constitutes true friendship.
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Desire Friendship Reject
We employ the mind to rule, the body to serve.
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Body Employment Mindset Rule Serve
He that will be angry for anything will be angry for nothing.
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Angry Deep Emotion Feeling Himself

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