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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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Do as much as possible, and talk of yourself as little as possible.
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Hard Work Modesty Possible Talk Yourself
To desire the same things and to reject the same things, constitutes true friendship.
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Desire Friendship Reject
For harmony makes small states great, while discord undermines the mightiest empires.
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Empire Greatness Harmony Small State
By the wicked the good conduct of others is always dreaded.
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Dread Goodness Wicked
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
It is always easy to begin a war, but very difficult to stop one.
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Beginning Difficult Easy Oneself Stop
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
The very life which we enjoy is short.
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Enjoyment Life One Liner Short
A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
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Defeat Goodness Justice Man
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
It is impossible that there should be so much providence in the last details, and none in the first principles. Then the arts of prophecy and of healing, which are part of the cosmos, come of the good providence of the Gods.
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Cosmos Detail God Healing Impossible Principle
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
The glory of wealth and of beauty is fleeting and frail; virtue is illustrious and everlasting.
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Beautiful Glory Illustration Virtue Wealth
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
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
It is better to use fair means and fail, than foul and conquer.
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Better Conquer Failure Right Rule Win

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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