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

Sallust

Kings are more prone to mistrust the good than the bad; and they are always afraid of the virtues of others.
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Afraid Bad Goodness Trust Virtue
By the wicked the good conduct of others is always dreaded.
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Dread Goodness Wicked
As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.
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Beginning Blessing Decay Fortune Health
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
To desire the same things and to reject the same things, constitutes true friendship.
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Desire Friendship Reject
One can ever assume to be what he is not, and to conceal what he is.
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Assume Conceal Himself
To someone seeking power, the poorest man is the most useful.
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Deep Man Poor Power Seek
A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
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Defeat Goodness Justice Man
But few prize honour more than money.
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Honor Money Prize
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
In my opinion, he only may be truly said to live and enjoy his being who is engaged in some laudable pursuit, and acquires a name by some illustrious action, or useful art.
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Action Enjoyment Illustration Live Myself Name Opinion Pursuit True
Every bad precedent originated as a justifiable measure.
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Bad Measurement Origin
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
Before you act consider; when you have considered, tis fully time to act.
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Act Action Consider Time Yourself
Deliberate before you begin; but, having carefully done so, execute with vigour.
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Beginning Care Execution Zeal
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

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

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