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In my opinion it is less shameful for a king to be overcome by force of arms than by bribery.

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Greedy for the property of others, extravagant with his own
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Himself Own Property
Of the bodies in the cosmos, some imitate mind and move in orbits; some imitate soul and move in a straight line, fire and air upward, earth and water downward.
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Body Cosmos Down Imitation Move On Soul Water
We employ the mind to rule, the body to serve.
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Body Employment Mindset Rule Serve
But at power or wealth, for the sake of which wars, and all kinds of strife, arise among mankind, we do not aim; we desire only our liberty, which no honorable man relinquishes but with his life.
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Desire Himself Kind Liberty Life Man Power War Wealth
Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master.
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Desire Liberty Master Men
Sovereignty is easily preserved by the very arts by which it was originally created. When, however, energy has given place to indifference, and temperance and justice to passion and arrogance, then as the morals change so changes fortune.
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Arrogance Art Change Creation Easy Fortune Justice Original Place Preserve
One can ever assume to be what he is not, and to conceal what he is.
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Assume Conceal Himself
For men who had easily endured hardship, danger and difficult uncertainty, leisure and riches, though in some ways desirable, proved burdensome and a source of grief.
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Dangerous Desire Easy Endurance Men Source Way
Everything that rises sets, and everything that grows, grows old.
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Growth Old Rise
The glory of riches and of beauty is frail and transitory; virtue remains bright and eternal.
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Beautiful Bright Forever Fragile Glory Rich
Deliberate before you begin; but, having carefully done so, execute with vigour.
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Beginning Care Execution Zeal
The soul is the captain and ruler of the life of morals.
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Captain Life Moral Rule Soul
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
Every bad precedent originated as a justifiable measure.
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Bad Measurement Origin
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
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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