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Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master.

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Of the cosmic Gods some make the world be, others animate it, others harmonize it, consisting as it does of different elements; the fourth class keep it when harmonized.
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Animate Consist Cosmos God Harmony
To like and dislike the same things that is indeed true friendship.
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Bond Friendship True
A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
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Defeat Goodness Justice Man
Harmony makes small things grow; lack of it makes great things decay.
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Decay Deep Greatness Growth Harmony
The fame that goes with wealth and beauty is fleeting and fragile; intellectual superiority is a possession glorious and eternal.
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Beautiful Fame Forever Glory Intellectual Possession Wealth
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
Get good counsel before you begin; and when you have decided, act promptly.
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Act Counsel Decision Goodness Prompt
To desire the same things and to reject the same things, constitutes true friendship.
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Desire Friendship Reject
But few prize honour more than money.
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Honor Money Prize
Deliberate before you begin; but, having carefully done so, execute with vigour.
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Beginning Care Execution Zeal
Fame is the shadow of passion standing in the light.
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Fame Light Passion Shadow Stand
Not by vows nor by womanish prayers is the help of the gods obtained; success comes through vigilance, energy, wise counsel.
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Counsel Energy God Help Prayer Promise Success Vow Wisdom
Greedy for the property of others, extravagant with his own
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Himself Own Property
By union the smallest states thrive. By discord the greatest are destroyed.
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Destroy Greatness Small State Thrive
Just to stir things up seemed a great reward in itself.
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Greatness Reward
It is impossible that there should be so much providence in the last details, and none in the first principles. Then the arts of prophecy and of healing, which are part of the cosmos, come of the good providence of the Gods.
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Cosmos Detail God Healing Impossible Principle

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