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All who consult on doubtful matters, should be void of hatred, friendship, anger, and pity.

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We employ the mind to rule, the body to serve.
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Body Employment Mindset Rule Serve
To someone seeking power, the poorest man is the most useful.
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Deep Man Poor Power Seek
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
Do as much as possible, and talk of yourself as little as possible.
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Hard Work Modesty Possible Talk Yourself
To have the same desires and the same aversion is assuredly a firm bond of friendship.
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Bond Desire Friendship
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
The soul is the captain and ruler of the life of morals.
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Captain Life Moral Rule Soul
There were few who preferred honor to money.
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Honor Money Preference
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
He that will be angry for anything will be angry for nothing.
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Angry Deep Emotion Feeling Himself
The higher your station, the less your liberty.
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High Liberty Station Yourself
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 impossible that there should be so much providence in the last details, and none in the first principles. Then the arts of prophecy and of healing, which are part of the cosmos, come of the good providence of the Gods.
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Cosmos Detail God Healing Impossible Principle
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
Every bad precedent originated as a justifiable measure.
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Bad Measurement Origin
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

All who consult on doubtful matters, should be void of hatred, friendship, anger, and pity.

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