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

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Get good counsel before you begin; and when you have decided, act promptly.
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Act Counsel Decision Goodness Prompt
The very life which we enjoy is short.
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Enjoyment Life One Liner Short
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
No grief reaches the dead.
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Death Grief One Liner Reach
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
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
Everything that rises sets, and everything that grows, grows old.
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Growth Old Rise
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
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
Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master.
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Desire Liberty Master Men
Necessity makes even the timid brave.
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Brave Circumstance Coward Necessary
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
One can ever assume to be what he is not, and to conceal what he is.
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Assume Conceal Himself
In battle it is the cowards who run the most risk; bravery is a rampart of defense.
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Battle Brave Coward Defense Risk Run
Greedy for the property of others, extravagant with his own
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Himself Own Property
To like and dislike the same things that is indeed true friendship.
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Bond Friendship True

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

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