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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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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
Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master.
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Desire Liberty Master Men
Small communities grow great through harmony, great ones fall to pieces through discord.
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Community Discord Greatness Harmony Oneself Pieces Small
It is always easy enough to take up arms, but very difficult to lay them down; the commencement and the termination of war are not necessarily in the same hands; even a coward may begin, but the end comes only when the victors are willing.
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Coward Difficult Easy Enough Hands Necessary War Willing
For harmony makes small states great, while discord undermines the mightiest empires.
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Empire Greatness Harmony Small State
Sovereignty is easily preserved by the very arts by which it was originally created. When, however, energy has given place to indifference, and temperance and justice to passion and arrogance, then as the morals change so changes fortune.
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Arrogance Art Change Creation Easy Fortune Justice Original Place Preserve
Enough words, little wisdom.
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Enough Wisdom Word
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
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
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
To like and dislike the same things that is indeed true friendship.
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Bond Friendship True
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
Fame is the shadow of passion standing in the light.
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Fame Light Passion Shadow Stand
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
Everything that rises sets, and everything that grows, grows old.
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Growth Old Rise
The poorest of men are the most useful to those seeking power.
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Man Poor Power Seek Useful

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