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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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The glory of riches and of beauty is frail and transitory; virtue remains bright and eternal.
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Beautiful Bright Forever Fragile Glory Rich
Since we have received everything from the Gods, and it is right to pay the giver some tithe of his gifts, we pay such a tithe of possessions in votive offering, of bodies in gifts of (hair and) adornment, and of life in sacrifices.
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Body Gift God Pay Possession Received Sacrifice
It is better to use fair means and fail, than foul and conquer.
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Better Conquer Failure Right Rule Win
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
To someone seeking power, the poorest man is the most useful.
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Deep Man Poor Power Seek
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
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
Greedy for the property of others, extravagant with his own
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Himself Own Property
To desire the same things and to reject the same things, constitutes true friendship.
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Desire Friendship Reject
The soul is the captain and ruler of the life of morals.
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Captain Life Moral Rule Soul
Advise well before you begin, and when you have maturely considered, then act with promptitude.
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Act Advice Beginning Mature
One can ever assume to be what he is not, and to conceal what he is.
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Assume Conceal Himself
Small communities grow great through harmony, great ones fall to pieces through discord.
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Community Discord Greatness Harmony Oneself Pieces Small
Necessity makes even the timid brave.
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Brave Circumstance Coward Necessary
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

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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