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No grief reaches the dead.

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We employ the mind to rule, the body to serve.
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Body Employment Mindset Rule Serve
No grief reaches the dead.
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Death Grief One Liner Reach
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
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
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
Enough words, little wisdom.
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Enough Wisdom Word
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
Poor Britons, there is some good in them after all – they produced an oyster.
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Goodness Pearl Production
The Romans assisted their allies and friends, and acquired friendships by giving rather than receiving kindness.
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Assistance Friendship Kindness Receive Roman
By union the smallest states thrive. By discord the greatest are destroyed.
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Destroy Greatness Small State Thrive
Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.
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Decay Fall Life Philosophy Rise
To desire the same things and to reject the same things, constitutes true friendship.
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Desire Friendship Reject
The soul is the captain and ruler of the life of morals.
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Captain Life Moral Rule Soul
Everything that rises sets, and everything that grows, grows old.
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Growth Old Rise
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
In victory even the cowardly like to boast, while in adverse times even the brave are discredited.
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Brave Coward Credit Time Victory

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