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The renown which riches or beauty confer is fleeting and frail mental excellence is a splendid and lasting possession.

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Just to stir things up seemed a great reward in itself.
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Greatness Reward
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
To someone seeking power, the poorest man is the most useful.
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Deep Man Poor Power Seek
To like and dislike the same things that is indeed true friendship.
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Bond Friendship True
One can ever assume to be what he is not, and to conceal what he is.
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Assume Conceal Himself
Deliberate before you begin; but, having carefully done so, execute with vigour.
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Beginning Care Execution Zeal
It is always easy to begin a war, but very difficult to stop one.
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Beginning Difficult Easy Oneself Stop
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
Most honorable are services rendered to the State; even if they do not go beyond words, they are not to be despised.
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Beyond Despise Honor Service State Word
By the wicked the good conduct of others is always dreaded.
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Dread Goodness Wicked
The higher your station, the less your liberty.
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High Liberty Station Yourself
No man underestimates the wrongs he suffers; many take them more seriously than is right.
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Himself Man Right Serious Suffering Wrong
The man who is roused neither by glory nor by danger it is in vain to exhort; terror closes the ears of the mind.
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Dangerous Glory Man Mindset Terror
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
But the case has proved that to be true which Appius says in his songs, that each man is the maker of his own fate.
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Creator Fate Man Song True
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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Jealous Method Myself Win

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