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

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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
Before you act consider; when you have considered, tis fully time to act.
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Act Action Consider Time Yourself
Just to stir things up seemed a great reward in itself.
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Greatness Reward
To desire the same things and to reject the same things, constitutes true friendship.
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Desire Friendship Reject
By the wicked the good conduct of others is always dreaded.
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Dread Goodness Wicked
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
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
Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.
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Decay Fall Life Philosophy Rise
Do as much as possible, and talk of yourself as little as possible.
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Hard Work Modesty Possible Talk Yourself
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
The fame that goes with wealth and beauty is fleeting and fragile; intellectual superiority is a possession glorious and eternal.
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Beautiful Fame Forever Glory Intellectual Possession Wealth
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
Those most moved to tears by every word of a preacher are generally weak and a rascal when the feelings evaporate.
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Evaporate Feeling General Move Tears Weakness Word
A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
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Defeat Goodness Justice Man
To hope for safety in flight, when you have turned away from the enemy the arms by which the body is defended, is indeed madness. In battle those who are most afraid are always in most danger; but courage is equivalent to rampart.
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Afraid Body Courage Defeat Enemy Equivalent Hope Madness Safety
A good man prefers to suffer rather than overcome injustice with evil.
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Evil Goodness Justice Man Preference

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

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