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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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All persons who are enthusiastic that they should transcend the other animals ought to strive with the utmost effort not to pass through a life of silence, like cattle, which nature has fashioned to be prone and obedient to their stomachs.
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Animal Effort Nature Obedience Person Stomach Transcend
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
The renown which riches or beauty confer is fleeting and frail mental excellence is a splendid and lasting possession.
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Beautiful Excellence Mental Possession Rich
Neither soldiers nor money can defend a king but only friends won by good deeds, merit, and honesty.
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Friendship Honesty Money Soldier
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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Deliberate before you begin; but, having carefully done so, execute with vigour.
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Beginning Care Execution Zeal
But the case has proved that to be true which Appius says in his songs, that each man is the maker of his own fate.
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Poor Britons, there is some good in them after all – they produced an oyster.
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The glory of ancestors sheds a light around posterity; it allows neither good nor bad qualities to remain in obscurity.
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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
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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Necessity makes even the timid brave.
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Harmony makes small things grow; lack of it makes great things decay.
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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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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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Fame is the shadow of passion standing in the light.
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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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