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Neither soldiers nor money can defend a king but only friends won by good deeds, merit, and honesty.

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Neither soldiers nor money can defend a king but only friends won by good deeds, merit, and honesty.
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Friendship Honesty Money Soldier
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
It is better to use fair means and fail, than foul and conquer.
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Better Conquer Failure Right Rule Win
For harmony makes small states great, while discord undermines the mightiest empires.
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Empire Greatness Harmony Small State
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
But few prize honour more than money.
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Honor Money Prize
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
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
The firmest friendship is based on an identity of likes and dislikes.
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Friendship Identity Nature
Necessity makes even the timid brave.
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Brave Circumstance Coward Necessary
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
Just to stir things up seemed a great reward in itself.
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Greatness Reward
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 soul is the captain and ruler of the life of morals.
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Captain Life Moral Rule Soul
All who consult on doubtful matters, should be void of hatred, friendship, anger, and pity.
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Angry Doubt Friendship Hate Pity
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

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