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Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master.
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Desire Liberty Master Men
It is always easy to begin a war, but very difficult to stop one.
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Beginning Difficult Easy Oneself Stop
To like and dislike the same things that is indeed true friendship.
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Bond Friendship True
Fortune rules in all things, and advances and depresses things more out of her own will than right and justice.
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Depression Fortune Justice Rule Willing
We employ the mind to rule, the body to serve.
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Body Employment Mindset Rule Serve
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
It is a law of human nature that in victory even the coward may boast of his prowess, while defeat injures the reputation even of the brave.
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Brave Defeat Himself Human Law Nature Reputation Victory
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
But assuredly Fortune rules in all things; she raised to eminence or buries in oblivion everything from caprice rather than from well-regulated principle.
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Assurance Bury Fate Fortune Principle Raise Rule
By union the smallest states thrive. By discord the greatest are destroyed.
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Destroy Greatness Small State Thrive
The soul is the captain and ruler of the life of morals.
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Captain Life Moral Rule Soul
Necessity makes even the timid brave.
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Brave Circumstance Coward Necessary
Every bad precedent originated as a justifiable measure.
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Bad Measurement Origin
Greedy for the property of others, extravagant with his own
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Himself Own Property
Each man the architect of his own fate.
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Architect Fate Himself Man
The firmest friendship is based on an identity of likes and dislikes.
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Friendship Identity Nature

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