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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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Before you act consider; when you have considered, tis fully time to act.
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Act Action Consider Time Yourself
Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master.
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Desire Liberty Master Men
Harmony makes small things grow; lack of it makes great things decay.
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Decay Deep Greatness Growth Harmony
It is impossible that there should be so much providence in the last details, and none in the first principles. Then the arts of prophecy and of healing, which are part of the cosmos, come of the good providence of the Gods.
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Cosmos Detail God Healing Impossible Principle
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 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
We employ the mind to rule, the body to serve.
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Body Employment Mindset Rule Serve
Among intellectual pursuits, one of the most useful is the recording of past events.
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Event Intellectual Past Pursuit
But few prize honour more than money.
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Honor Money Prize
In victory even the cowardly like to boast, while in adverse times even the brave are discredited.
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Brave Coward Credit Time Victory
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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Dangerous Glory Man Mindset Terror
The higher your station, the less your liberty.
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High Liberty Station Yourself
A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
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Defeat Goodness Justice Man
Small endeavours obtain strength by unity of action: the most powerful are broken down by discord.
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Action Break Discord Small Strength Unity
The poorest of men are the most useful to those seeking power.
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Man Poor Power Seek Useful
In my own case, who have spent my whole life in the practice of virtue, right conduct from habitual has become natural.
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Character Life Natural Practice Right Virtue

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