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In battle it is the cowards who run the most risk; bravery is a rampart of defense.

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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
For men who had easily endured hardship, danger and difficult uncertainty, leisure and riches, though in some ways desirable, proved burdensome and a source of grief.
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Dangerous Desire Easy Endurance Men Source Way
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
No grief reaches the dead.
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Death Grief One Liner Reach
The renown which riches or beauty confer is fleeting and frail mental excellence is a splendid and lasting possession.
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Beautiful Excellence Mental Possession Rich
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
Prosperity tries the souls even of the wise.
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Prosperity Soul Try Wisdom
The very life which we enjoy is short.
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Enjoyment Life One Liner Short
Get good counsel before you begin; and when you have decided, act promptly.
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Act Counsel Decision Goodness Prompt
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
By union the smallest states thrive. By discord the greatest are destroyed.
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Destroy Greatness Small State Thrive
The fame which is based on wealth or beauty is a frail and fleeting thing; but virtue shines for ages with undiminished lustre.
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Age Fame Luster Virtual Wealth
The Romans assisted their allies and friends, and acquired friendships by giving rather than receiving kindness.
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Assistance Friendship Kindness Receive Roman
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
Small communities grow great through harmony, great ones fall to pieces through discord.
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Community Discord Greatness Harmony Oneself Pieces Small
To hope for safety in flight, when you have turned away from the enemy the arms by which the body is defended, is indeed madness. In battle those who are most afraid are always in most danger; but courage is equivalent to rampart.
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Afraid Body Courage Defeat Enemy Equivalent Hope Madness Safety
Every bad precedent originated as a justifiable measure.
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Bad Measurement Origin
Just to stir things up seemed a great reward in itself.
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Greatness Reward
Before you act consider; when you have considered, tis fully time to act.
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Act Action Consider Time Yourself
The poorest of men are the most useful to those seeking power.
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Man Poor Power Seek Useful
Do as much as possible, and talk of yourself as little as possible.
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Hard Work Modesty Possible Talk Yourself
Deliberate before you begin; but, having carefully done so, execute with vigour.
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Beginning Care Execution Zeal
A good man prefers to suffer rather than overcome injustice with evil.
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Evil Goodness Justice Man Preference
He that will be angry for anything will be angry for nothing.
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Angry Deep Emotion Feeling Himself
But at power or wealth, for the sake of which wars, and all kinds of strife, arise among mankind, we do not aim; we desire only our liberty, which no honorable man relinquishes but with his life.
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Desire Himself Kind Liberty Life Man Power War Wealth
Fortune rules in all things, and advances and depresses things more out of her own will than right and justice.
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Depression Fortune Justice Rule Willing
One can ever assume to be what he is not, and to conceal what he is.
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Assume Conceal Himself

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