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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
It is sweet to surve one country by deeds, and it is not absurd to surve her by words.
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Country Herself Madness Sweet Word
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
Enough words, little wisdom.
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Enough Wisdom Word
The glory of riches and of beauty is frail and transitory; virtue remains bright and eternal.
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Beautiful Bright Forever Fragile Glory Rich
All who consult on doubtful matters, should be void of hatred, friendship, anger, and pity.
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Angry Doubt Friendship Hate Pity
The very life which we enjoy is short.
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Enjoyment Life One Liner Short
One can ever assume to be what he is not, and to conceal what he is.
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Assume Conceal Himself
Prosperity tries the souls even of the wise.
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Prosperity Soul Try Wisdom
Among intellectual pursuits, one of the most useful is the recording of past events.
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Event Intellectual Past Pursuit
To like and dislike the same things that is indeed true friendship.
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Bond Friendship True
Every bad precedent originated as a justifiable measure.
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Bad Measurement Origin
We employ the mind to rule, the body to serve.
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Body Employment Mindset Rule Serve
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
A good man prefers to suffer rather than overcome injustice with evil.
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Evil Goodness Justice Man Preference
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

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