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We employ the mind to rule, the body to serve.

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Small communities grow great through harmony, great ones fall to pieces through discord.
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Community Discord Greatness Harmony Oneself Pieces Small
Poor Britons, there is some good in them after all – they produced an oyster.
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Goodness Pearl Production
Everything that rises sets, and everything that grows, grows old.
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Growth Old Rise
To have the same desires and the same aversion is assuredly a firm bond of friendship.
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Bond Desire Friendship
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 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
Advise well before you begin, and when you have maturely considered, then act with promptitude.
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Act Advice Beginning Mature
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
One can ever assume to be what he is not, and to conceal what he is.
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Assume Conceal Himself
To someone seeking power, the poorest man is the most useful.
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Deep Man Poor Power Seek
It is a law of human nature that in victory even the coward may boast of his prowess, while defeat injures the reputation even of the brave.
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Brave Defeat Himself Human Law Nature Reputation Victory
Greedy for the property of others, extravagant with his own
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Himself Own Property
The glory of wealth and of beauty is fleeting and frail; virtue is illustrious and everlasting.
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Beautiful Glory Illustration Virtue Wealth
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
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
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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