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Ambition drove many men to become false; to have one thought locked in the breast, another ready on the tongue.

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Everything that rises sets, and everything that grows, grows old.
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Growth Old Rise
The glory of wealth and of beauty is fleeting and frail; virtue is illustrious and everlasting.
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Beautiful Glory Illustration Virtue Wealth
Every bad precedent originated as a justifiable measure.
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Bad Measurement Origin
One can ever assume to be what he is not, and to conceal what he is.
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Assume Conceal Himself
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
The poorest of men are the most useful to those seeking power.
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Man Poor Power Seek Useful
Fame is the shadow of passion standing in the light.
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Fame Light Passion Shadow Stand
To desire the same things and to reject the same things, constitutes true friendship.
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Desire Friendship Reject
Of the bodies in the cosmos, some imitate mind and move in orbits; some imitate soul and move in a straight line, fire and air upward, earth and water downward.
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Body Cosmos Down Imitation Move On Soul Water
In my opinion, he only may be truly said to live and enjoy his being who is engaged in some laudable pursuit, and acquires a name by some illustrious action, or useful art.
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Action Enjoyment Illustration Live Myself Name Opinion Pursuit True
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
We employ the mind to rule, the body to serve.
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Body Employment Mindset Rule Serve
The soul is the captain and ruler of the life of morals.
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Captain Life Moral Rule Soul
Most honorable are services rendered to the State; even if they do not go beyond words, they are not to be despised.
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Beyond Despise Honor Service State Word
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
The fame that goes with wealth and beauty is fleeting and fragile; intellectual superiority is a possession glorious and eternal.
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Beautiful Fame Forever Glory Intellectual Possession Wealth
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 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
Each man the architect of his own fate.
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Architect Fate Himself Man
To have the same desires and the same aversion is assuredly a firm bond of friendship.
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Bond Desire Friendship
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
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
It is better to use fair means and fail, than foul and conquer.
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Better Conquer Failure Right Rule Win
A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
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Defeat Goodness Justice Man
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
There were few who preferred honor to money.
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Honor Money Preference
To hope for safety in flight, when you have turned away from the enemy the arms by which the body is defended, is indeed madness. In battle those who are most afraid are always in most danger; but courage is equivalent to rampart.
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Afraid Body Courage Defeat Enemy Equivalent Hope Madness Safety

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