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The glory of wealth and of beauty is fleeting and frail; virtue is illustrious and everlasting.

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The very life which we enjoy is short.
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Enjoyment Life One Liner Short
To desire the same things and to reject the same things, constitutes true friendship.
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Desire Friendship Reject
Ambition drove many men to become false; to have one thought locked in the breast, another ready on the tongue.
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Ambition Drive Fake Lock Man Ready Thinking
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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Dangerous Desire Easy Endurance Men Source Way
Every bad precedent originated as a justifiable measure.
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Bad Measurement Origin
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
Harmony makes small things grow; lack of it makes great things decay.
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Decay Deep Greatness Growth Harmony
In my opinion it is less shameful for a king to be overcome by force of arms than by bribery.
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Arms Bribe Force Opinion Shame
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
Each man the architect of his own fate.
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Architect Fate Himself Man
Ambition breaks the ties of blood, and forgets the obligations of gratitude.
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Ambition Blood Bond Break Forget Gratitude Obligation
Of the cosmic Gods some make the world be, others animate it, others harmonize it, consisting as it does of different elements; the fourth class keep it when harmonized.
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Animate Consist Cosmos God Harmony
Small endeavours obtain strength by unity of action: the most powerful are broken down by discord.
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Action Break Discord Small Strength Unity
For harmony makes small states great, while discord undermines the mightiest empires.
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Empire Greatness Harmony Small State
The higher your station, the less your liberty.
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High Liberty Station Yourself
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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