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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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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
To like and dislike the same things that is indeed true friendship.
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Bond Friendship True
By the wicked the good conduct of others is always dreaded.
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Dread Goodness Wicked
He that will be angry for anything will be angry for nothing.
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Angry Deep Emotion Feeling Himself
The higher your station, the less your liberty.
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High Liberty Station Yourself
Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.
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Decay Fall Life Philosophy Rise
Distinguished ancestors shed a powerful light on their descendants, and forbid the concealment either of their merits or of their demerits.
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Advice Ancestor Help Light Powerful
It is better to use fair means and fail, than foul and conquer.
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Better Conquer Failure Right Rule Win
The glory of ancestors sheds a light around posterity; it allows neither good nor bad qualities to remain in obscurity.
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Ancestor Bad Glory Goodness Light Obscurity Quality
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
To someone seeking power, the poorest man is the most useful.
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Deep Man Poor Power Seek
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
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
One can ever assume to be what he is not, and to conceal what he is.
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Assume Conceal Himself
In battle it is the cowards who run the most risk; bravery is a rampart of defense.
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Battle Brave Coward Defense Risk Run

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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