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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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But few prize honour more than money.
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Honor Money Prize
It is always easy enough to take up arms, but very difficult to lay them down; the commencement and the termination of war are not necessarily in the same hands; even a coward may begin, but the end comes only when the victors are willing.
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Coward Difficult Easy Enough Hands Necessary War Willing
He that will be angry for anything will be angry for nothing.
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Angry Deep Emotion Feeling Himself
In my opinion, he only may be truly said to live and enjoy his being who is engaged in some laudable pursuit, and acquires a name by some illustrious action, or useful art.
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Action Enjoyment Illustration Live Myself Name Opinion Pursuit True
Ambition breaks the ties of blood, and forgets the obligations of gratitude.
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Ambition Blood Bond Break Forget Gratitude Obligation
Greedy for the property of others, extravagant with his own
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Himself Own Property
In victory even the cowardly like to boast, while in adverse times even the brave are discredited.
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Brave Coward Credit Time Victory
A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
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Defeat Goodness Justice Man
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
No man underestimates the wrongs he suffers; many take them more seriously than is right.
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Himself Man Right Serious Suffering Wrong
Fortune rules in all things, and advances and depresses things more out of her own will than right and justice.
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Depression Fortune Justice Rule Willing
Before you act consider; when you have considered, tis fully time to act.
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Act Action Consider Time Yourself
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
Kings are more prone to mistrust the good than the bad; and they are always afraid of the virtues of others.
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Afraid Bad Goodness Trust Virtue
One can ever assume to be what he is not, and to conceal what he is.
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Assume Conceal Himself
It is sweet to surve one country by deeds, and it is not absurd to surve her by words.
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Country Herself Madness Sweet Word

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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