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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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A good man prefers to suffer rather than overcome injustice with evil.
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Evil Goodness Justice Man Preference
Poor Britons, there is some good in them after all – they produced an oyster.
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Goodness Pearl Production
Everything that rises sets, and everything that grows, grows old.
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Growth Old Rise
We employ the mind to rule, the body to serve.
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Body Employment Mindset Rule Serve
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
Get good counsel before you begin; and when you have decided, act promptly.
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Act Counsel Decision Goodness Prompt
Neither the army nor the treasury, but friends, are the true supports of the throne; for friends cannot be collected by force of arms, nor purchased with money; they are the offspring of kindness and sincerity.
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Army Collection Force Kindness Kingdom Money Sincere Support Treasure True
The soul is the captain and ruler of the life of morals.
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Captain Life Moral Rule Soul
Among intellectual pursuits, one of the most useful is the recording of past events.
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Event Intellectual Past Pursuit
Just to stir things up seemed a great reward in itself.
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Greatness Reward
Each man the architect of his own fate.
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Architect Fate Himself Man
He that will be angry for anything will be angry for nothing.
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Angry Deep Emotion Feeling Himself
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
The poorest of men are the most useful to those seeking power.
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Man Poor Power Seek Useful
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
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

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