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Prosperity tries the souls even of the wise.

Sallust

To hope for safety in flight, when you have turned away from the enemy the arms by which the body is defended, is indeed madness. In battle those who are most afraid are always in most danger; but courage is equivalent to rampart.
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Afraid Body Courage Defeat Enemy Equivalent Hope Madness Safety
Advise well before you begin, and when you have maturely considered, then act with promptitude.
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Act Advice Beginning Mature
Each man the architect of his own fate.
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Architect Fate Himself Man
To desire the same things and to reject the same things, constitutes true friendship.
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Desire Friendship Reject
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
All who consult on doubtful matters, should be void of hatred, friendship, anger, and pity.
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Angry Doubt Friendship Hate Pity
Ambition breaks the ties of blood, and forgets the obligations of gratitude.
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Ambition Blood Bond Break Forget Gratitude Obligation
The fame that goes with wealth and beauty is fleeting and fragile; intellectual superiority is a possession glorious and eternal.
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Beautiful Fame Forever Glory Intellectual Possession Wealth
Poor Britons, there is some good in them after all – they produced an oyster.
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Goodness Pearl Production
He that will be angry for anything will be angry for nothing.
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Angry Deep Emotion Feeling Himself
Greedy for the property of others, extravagant with his own
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Himself Own Property
When the prizes fall to the lot of the wicked, you will not find many who are virtuous for virtue’s sake.
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Fall Finding Prize Virtue Yourself
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
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
Harmony makes small things grow; lack of it makes great things decay.
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Decay Deep Greatness Growth Harmony
Prosperity tries the souls even of the wise.
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Prosperity Soul Try Wisdom

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