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

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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
Everything destroyed is either resolved into the elements from which it came, or else vanishes into not-being. If things are resolved into the elements from which they came, then there will be others: else how did they come into being at all?
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Destroy Element Existence
Just to stir things up seemed a great reward in itself.
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Greatness Reward
Do as much as possible, and talk of yourself as little as possible.
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Hard Work Modesty Possible Talk Yourself
When the prizes fall to the lot of the wicked, you will not find many who are virtuous for virtue’s sake.
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Fall Finding Prize Virtue Yourself
All persons who are enthusiastic that they should transcend the other animals ought to strive with the utmost effort not to pass through a life of silence, like cattle, which nature has fashioned to be prone and obedient to their stomachs.
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Animal Effort Nature Obedience Person Stomach Transcend
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
The higher your station, the less your liberty.
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High Liberty Station Yourself
Enough words, little wisdom.
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Enough Wisdom Word
Everything that rises sets, and everything that grows, grows old.
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Growth Old Rise
It is always easy to begin a war, but very difficult to stop one.
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Beginning Difficult Easy Oneself Stop
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
Among intellectual pursuits, one of the most useful is the recording of past events.
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Event Intellectual Past Pursuit
Necessity makes even the timid brave.
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Brave Circumstance Coward Necessary
A good man prefers to suffer rather than overcome injustice with evil.
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Evil Goodness Justice Man Preference
For harmony makes small states great, while discord undermines the mightiest empires.
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Empire Greatness Harmony Small State

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