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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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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
They envy the distinction I have won; let them therefore, envy my toils, my honesty, and the methods by which I gained it.
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Jealous Method Myself Win
Deliberate before you begin; but, having carefully done so, execute with vigour.
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Beginning Care Execution Zeal
Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.
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Decay Fall Life Philosophy Rise
But few prize honour more than money.
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Honor Money Prize
All who consult on doubtful matters, should be void of hatred, friendship, anger, and pity.
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Angry Doubt Friendship Hate Pity
Everything destroyed is either resolved into the elements from which it came, or else vanishes into not-being. If things are resolved into the elements from which they came, then there will be others: else how did they come into being at all?
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Destroy Element Existence
Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master.
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Desire Liberty Master Men
Necessity makes even the timid brave.
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Brave Circumstance Coward Necessary
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
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
Each man the architect of his own fate.
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Architect Fate Himself Man
Neither the army nor the treasury, but friends, are the true supports of the throne; for friends cannot be collected by force of arms, nor purchased with money; they are the offspring of kindness and sincerity.
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Army Collection Force Kindness Kingdom Money Sincere Support Treasure True
Among intellectual pursuits, one of the most useful is the recording of past events.
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Event Intellectual Past Pursuit
No mortal man has ever served at the same time his passions and his best interests.
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Best Interest Man Mortal Passion Serve Time
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

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