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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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Distinguished ancestors shed a powerful light on their descendants, and forbid the concealment either of their merits or of their demerits.
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Advice Ancestor Help Light Powerful
There were few who preferred honor to money.
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Honor Money Preference
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
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
Harmony makes small things grow; lack of it makes great things decay.
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Decay Deep Greatness Growth Harmony
Every bad precedent originated as a justifiable measure.
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Bad Measurement Origin
Small communities grow great through harmony, great ones fall to pieces through discord.
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Community Discord Greatness Harmony Oneself Pieces Small
The soul is the captain and ruler of the life of morals.
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Captain Life Moral Rule Soul
Each man the architect of his own fate.
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Architect Fate Himself Man
Fame is the shadow of passion standing in the light.
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Fame Light Passion Shadow Stand
To desire the same things and to reject the same things, constitutes true friendship.
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Desire Friendship Reject
The Romans assisted their allies and friends, and acquired friendships by giving rather than receiving kindness.
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Assistance Friendship Kindness Receive Roman
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
Deliberate before you begin; but, having carefully done so, execute with vigour.
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Beginning Care Execution Zeal
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
Necessity makes even the timid brave.
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Brave Circumstance Coward Necessary

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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