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But few prize honour more than money.

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Those most moved to tears by every word of a preacher are generally weak and a rascal when the feelings evaporate.
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Evaporate Feeling General Move Tears Weakness Word
He that will be angry for anything will be angry for nothing.
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Angry Deep Emotion Feeling Himself
To someone seeking power, the poorest man is the most useful.
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Deep Man Poor Power Seek
In my opinion it is less shameful for a king to be overcome by force of arms than by bribery.
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Arms Bribe Force Opinion Shame
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
When the prizes fall to the lot of the wicked, you will not find many who are virtuous for virtue’s sake.
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Fall Finding Prize Virtue Yourself
Enough words, little wisdom.
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Enough Wisdom Word
One can ever assume to be what he is not, and to conceal what he is.
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Assume Conceal Himself
Of the cosmic Gods some make the world be, others animate it, others harmonize it, consisting as it does of different elements; the fourth class keep it when harmonized.
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Animate Consist Cosmos God Harmony
Before you act consider; when you have considered, tis fully time to act.
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Act Action Consider Time Yourself
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
To desire the same things and to reject the same things, constitutes true friendship.
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Desire Friendship Reject
They envy the distinction I have won; let them therefore, envy my toils, my honesty, and the methods by which I gained it.
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Jealous Method Myself Win
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
Greedy for the property of others, extravagant with his own
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Himself Own Property
Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master.
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Desire Liberty Master Men

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