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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
There were few who preferred honor to money.
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Honor Money Preference
Small communities grow great through harmony, great ones fall to pieces through discord.
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Community Discord Greatness Harmony Oneself Pieces Small
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
But few prize honour more than money.
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Honor Money Prize
For harmony makes small states great, while discord undermines the mightiest empires.
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Empire Greatness Harmony Small State
The Gods being good and making all things, there is no positive evil, it only comes by absence of good; just as darkness itself does not exist, but only comes about by absence of light.
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Absence Darkness Existence God Goodness Light Positive
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
Greedy for the property of others, extravagant with his own
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Himself Own Property
One can ever assume to be what he is not, and to conceal what he is.
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Assume Conceal Himself
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
Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master.
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Desire Liberty Master Men
Fame is the shadow of passion standing in the light.
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Fame Light Passion Shadow Stand
It is sweet to surve one country by deeds, and it is not absurd to surve her by words.
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Country Herself Madness Sweet Word
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
He that will be angry for anything will be angry for nothing.
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Angry Deep Emotion Feeling Himself

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