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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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Fame is the shadow of passion standing in the light.
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Fame Light Passion Shadow Stand
It is always easy to begin a war, but very difficult to stop one.
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Beginning Difficult Easy Oneself Stop
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
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
Do as much as possible, and talk of yourself as little as possible.
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Hard Work Modesty Possible Talk Yourself
To someone seeking power, the poorest man is the most useful.
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Deep Man Poor Power Seek
Poor Britons, there is some good in them after all – they produced an oyster.
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Goodness Pearl Production
There were few who preferred honor to money.
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Honor Money Preference
But assuredly Fortune rules in all things; she raised to eminence or buries in oblivion everything from caprice rather than from well-regulated principle.
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Assurance Bury Fate Fortune Principle Raise Rule
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
Everything that rises sets, and everything that grows, grows old.
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Growth Old Rise
The firmest friendship is based on an identity of likes and dislikes.
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Friendship Identity Nature
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
Harmony makes small things grow; lack of it makes great things decay.
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Decay Deep Greatness Growth Harmony
The Gods being good and making all things, there is no positive evil, it only comes by absence of good; just as darkness itself does not exist, but only comes about by absence of light.
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Absence Darkness Existence God Goodness Light Positive
Deliberate before you begin; but, having carefully done so, execute with vigour.
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Beginning Care Execution Zeal
Each man the architect of his own fate.
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Architect Fate Himself Man
A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
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Defeat Goodness Justice Man
Distinguished ancestors shed a powerful light on their descendants, and forbid the concealment either of their merits or of their demerits.
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Advice Ancestor Help Light Powerful
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
By the wicked the good conduct of others is always dreaded.
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Dread Goodness Wicked
All those who offer an opinion on any doubtful point should first clear their minds of every sentiment of dislike, friendship, anger or pity.
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Angry Doubt Friendship Offering Opinion
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
Small communities grow great through harmony, great ones fall to pieces through discord.
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Community Discord Greatness Harmony Oneself Pieces Small
In battle it is the cowards who run the most risk; bravery is a rampart of defense.
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Battle Brave Coward Defense Risk Run
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
Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master.
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Desire Liberty Master Men

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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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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