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They envy the distinction I have won; let them therefore, envy my toils, my honesty, and the methods by which I gained it.

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To desire the same things and to reject the same things, constitutes true friendship.
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Desire Friendship Reject
The higher your station, the less your liberty.
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High Liberty Station Yourself
No grief reaches the dead.
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Death Grief One Liner Reach
As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.
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Beginning Blessing Decay Fortune Health
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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Afraid Bad Goodness Trust Virtue
But few prize honour more than money.
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Honor Money Prize
Do as much as possible, and talk of yourself as little as possible.
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Hard Work Modesty Possible Talk Yourself
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
Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master.
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Desire Liberty Master Men
All men who would surpass the other animals should do their best not to pass through life silently like the beasts whom nature made prone, obedient to their bellies.
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Animal Best Life Man Obedience Stomach Through
We employ the mind to rule, the body to serve.
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Body Employment Mindset Rule Serve
No mortal man has ever served at the same time his passions and his best interests.
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Best Interest Man Mortal Passion Serve Time
All persons who are enthusiastic that they should transcend the other animals ought to strive with the utmost effort not to pass through a life of silence, like cattle, which nature has fashioned to be prone and obedient to their stomachs.
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Animal Effort Nature Obedience Person Stomach Transcend
Enough words, little wisdom.
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Enough Wisdom 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
Ambition drove many men to become false; to have one thought locked in the breast, another ready on the tongue.
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Ambition Drive Fake Lock Man Ready Thinking

They envy the distinction I have won; let them therefore, envy my toils, my honesty, and the methods by which I gained it.

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