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Deliberate before you begin; but, having carefully done so, execute with vigour.

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Since we have received everything from the Gods, and it is right to pay the giver some tithe of his gifts, we pay such a tithe of possessions in votive offering, of bodies in gifts of (hair and) adornment, and of life in sacrifices.
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Body Gift God Pay Possession Received Sacrifice
Kings are more prone to mistrust the good than the bad; and they are always afraid of the virtues of others.
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Afraid Bad Goodness Trust Virtue
Necessity makes even the timid brave.
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Brave Circumstance Coward Necessary
In my opinion, he only may be truly said to live and enjoy his being who is engaged in some laudable pursuit, and acquires a name by some illustrious action, or useful art.
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Action Enjoyment Illustration Live Myself Name Opinion Pursuit True
It is better to use fair means and fail, than foul and conquer.
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Better Conquer Failure Right Rule Win
There were few who preferred honor to money.
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Honor Money Preference
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
Small communities grow great through harmony, great ones fall to pieces through discord.
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Community Discord Greatness Harmony Oneself Pieces Small
No grief reaches the dead.
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Death Grief One Liner Reach
But few prize honour more than money.
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Honor Money Prize
Of the bodies in the cosmos, some imitate mind and move in orbits; some imitate soul and move in a straight line, fire and air upward, earth and water downward.
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Body Cosmos Down Imitation Move On Soul Water
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
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
Advise well before you begin, and when you have maturely considered, then act with promptitude.
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Act Advice Beginning Mature
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
Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master.
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Desire Liberty Master Men

Deliberate before you begin; but, having carefully done so, execute with vigour.

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Deliberate before you begin; but, having carefully done so, execute with vigour.

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