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Necessity makes even the timid brave.

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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
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
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
In my opinion it is less shameful for a king to be overcome by force of arms than by bribery.
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Arms Bribe Force Opinion Shame
Kings are more prone to mistrust the good than the bad; and they are always afraid of the virtues of others.
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Afraid Bad Goodness Trust Virtue
All men who would surpass the other animals should do their best not to pass through life silently like the beasts whom nature made prone, obedient to their bellies.
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Animal Best Life Man Obedience Stomach Through
We employ the mind to rule, the body to serve.
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Body Employment Mindset Rule Serve
Do as much as possible, and talk of yourself as little as possible.
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Hard Work Modesty Possible Talk 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
Advise well before you begin, and when you have maturely considered, then act with promptitude.
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Act Advice Beginning Mature
By the wicked the good conduct of others is always dreaded.
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Dread Goodness Wicked
Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master.
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Desire Liberty Master Men
Harmony makes small things grow; lack of it makes great things decay.
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Decay Deep Greatness Growth Harmony
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
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
A good man prefers to suffer rather than overcome injustice with evil.
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Evil Goodness Justice Man Preference

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