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By the wicked the good conduct of others is always dreaded.

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The glory of riches and of beauty is frail and transitory; virtue remains bright and eternal.
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Beautiful Bright Forever Fragile Glory Rich
Greedy for the property of others, extravagant with his own
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Himself Own Property
Ambition breaks the ties of blood, and forgets the obligations of gratitude.
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Ambition Blood Bond Break Forget Gratitude Obligation
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
But few prize honour more than money.
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Honor Money Prize
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
No grief reaches the dead.
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Death Grief One Liner Reach
It is better to use fair means and fail, than foul and conquer.
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Better Conquer Failure Right Rule Win
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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Creator Fate Man Song True
A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
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Defeat Goodness Justice Man
We employ the mind to rule, the body to serve.
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Body Employment Mindset Rule Serve
To have the same desires and the same aversion is assuredly a firm bond of friendship.
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Bond Desire Friendship
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
By union the smallest states thrive. By discord the greatest are destroyed.
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Destroy Greatness Small State Thrive
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

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