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The man who is roused neither by glory nor by danger it is in vain to exhort; terror closes the ears of the mind.

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A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
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Defeat Goodness Justice Man
Small communities grow great through harmony, great ones fall to pieces through discord.
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Community Discord Greatness Harmony Oneself Pieces Small
No mortal man has ever served at the same time his passions and his best interests.
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Best Interest Man Mortal Passion Serve Time
To someone seeking power, the poorest man is the most useful.
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Deep Man Poor Power Seek
Greedy for the property of others, extravagant with his own
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Himself Own Property
Everything that rises sets, and everything that grows, grows old.
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Growth Old Rise
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
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
Just to stir things up seemed a great reward in itself.
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Greatness Reward
Before you act consider; when you have considered, tis fully time to act.
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Act Action Consider Time Yourself
Enough words, little wisdom.
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Enough Wisdom Word
By the wicked the good conduct of others is always dreaded.
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Dread Goodness Wicked
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 higher your station, the less your liberty.
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High Liberty Station Yourself
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

The man who is roused neither by glory nor by danger it is in vain to exhort; terror closes the ears of the mind.

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