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Since we have received everything from the Gods, and it is right to pay the giver some tithe of his gifts, we pay such a tithe of possessions in votive offering, of bodies in gifts of (hair and) adornment, and of life in sacrifices.

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We employ the mind to rule, the body to serve.
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Body Employment Mindset Rule Serve
Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.
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Decay Fall Life Philosophy Rise
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
Since we have received everything from the Gods, and it is right to pay the giver some tithe of his gifts, we pay such a tithe of possessions in votive offering, of bodies in gifts of (hair and) adornment, and of life in sacrifices.
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Body Gift God Pay Possession Received Sacrifice
He that will be angry for anything will be angry for nothing.
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Angry Deep Emotion Feeling Himself
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
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
To desire the same things and to reject the same things, constitutes true friendship.
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Desire Friendship Reject
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
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
Every bad precedent originated as a justifiable measure.
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Bad Measurement Origin
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
Just to stir things up seemed a great reward in itself.
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Greatness Reward
It is better to use fair means and fail, than foul and conquer.
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Better Conquer Failure Right Rule Win
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
But few prize honour more than money.
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Honor Money Prize

Since we have received everything from the Gods, and it is right to pay the giver some tithe of his gifts, we pay such a tithe of possessions in votive offering, of bodies in gifts of (hair and) adornment, and of life in sacrifices.

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Since we have received everything from the Gods, and it is right to pay the giver some tithe of his gifts, we pay such a tithe of possessions in votive offering, of bodies in gifts of (hair and) adornment, and of life in sacrifices.

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