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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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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
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
A good man prefers to suffer rather than overcome injustice with evil.
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Evil Goodness Justice Man Preference
The firmest friendship is based on an identity of likes and dislikes.
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Friendship Identity Nature
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
Before you act consider; when you have considered, tis fully time to act.
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Act Action Consider Time Yourself
He that will be angry for anything will be angry for nothing.
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Angry Deep Emotion Feeling Himself
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
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
There were few who preferred honor to money.
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Honor Money Preference
Ambition drove many men to become false; to have one thought locked in the breast, another ready on the tongue.
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Ambition Drive Fake Lock Man Ready Thinking
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
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
But few prize honour more than money.
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Honor Money Prize
Small communities grow great through harmony, great ones fall to pieces through discord.
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Community Discord Greatness Harmony Oneself Pieces Small
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

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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