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It is sweet to surve one country by deeds, and it is not absurd to surve her by words.

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To someone seeking power, the poorest man is the most useful.
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Deep Man Poor Power Seek
Prosperity tries the souls even of the wise.
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Prosperity Soul Try Wisdom
The renown which riches or beauty confer is fleeting and frail mental excellence is a splendid and lasting possession.
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Beautiful Excellence Mental Possession Rich
Deliberate before you begin; but, having carefully done so, execute with vigour.
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Beginning Care Execution Zeal
Get good counsel before you begin; and when you have decided, act promptly.
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Act Counsel Decision Goodness Prompt
Among intellectual pursuits, one of the most useful is the recording of past events.
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Event Intellectual Past Pursuit
Poor Britons, there is some good in them after all – they produced an oyster.
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Goodness Pearl Production
Small communities grow great through harmony, great ones fall to pieces through discord.
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Community Discord Greatness Harmony Oneself Pieces Small
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
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
Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master.
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Desire Liberty Master Men
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
A good man prefers to suffer rather than overcome injustice with evil.
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Evil Goodness Justice Man Preference
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
But at power or wealth, for the sake of which wars, and all kinds of strife, arise among mankind, we do not aim; we desire only our liberty, which no honorable man relinquishes but with his life.
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Desire Himself Kind Liberty Life Man Power War Wealth
The soul is the captain and ruler of the life of morals.
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Captain Life Moral Rule Soul

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