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The renown which riches or beauty confer is fleeting and frail mental excellence is a splendid and lasting possession.

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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
There were few who preferred honor to money.
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Honor Money Preference
By union the smallest states thrive. By discord the greatest are destroyed.
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Destroy Greatness Small State Thrive
Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.
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Decay Fall Life Philosophy Rise
Fortune rules in all things, and advances and depresses things more out of her own will than right and justice.
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Depression Fortune Justice Rule Willing
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
A good man prefers to suffer rather than overcome injustice with evil.
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Evil Goodness Justice Man Preference
No mortal man has ever served at the same time his passions and his best interests.
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Best Interest Man Mortal Passion Serve Time
To have the same desires and the same aversion is assuredly a firm bond of friendship.
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Bond Desire Friendship
He that will be angry for anything will be angry for nothing.
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Angry Deep Emotion Feeling Himself
Ambition breaks the ties of blood, and forgets the obligations of gratitude.
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Ambition Blood Bond Break Forget Gratitude Obligation
The firmest friendship is based on an identity of likes and dislikes.
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Friendship Identity Nature
Among intellectual pursuits, one of the most useful is the recording of past events.
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Event Intellectual Past Pursuit
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
We employ the mind to rule, the body to serve.
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Body Employment Mindset Rule Serve
Enough words, little wisdom.
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Enough Wisdom Word

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