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Distinguished ancestors shed a powerful light on their descendants, and forbid the concealment either of their merits or of their demerits.

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He that will be angry for anything will be angry for nothing.
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Angry Deep Emotion Feeling Himself
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
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
Among intellectual pursuits, one of the most useful is the recording of past events.
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Event Intellectual Past Pursuit
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
The firmest friendship is based on an identity of likes and dislikes.
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Friendship Identity Nature
We employ the mind to rule, the body to serve.
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Body Employment Mindset Rule Serve
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
Every bad precedent originated as a justifiable measure.
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Bad Measurement Origin
Do as much as possible, and talk of yourself as little as possible.
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Hard Work Modesty Possible Talk Yourself
Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master.
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Desire Liberty Master Men
In my own case, who have spent my whole life in the practice of virtue, right conduct from habitual has become natural.
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Character Life Natural Practice Right Virtue
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
Poor Britons, there is some good in them after all – they produced an oyster.
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Goodness Pearl Production
Neither the army nor the treasury, but friends, are the true supports of the throne; for friends cannot be collected by force of arms, nor purchased with money; they are the offspring of kindness and sincerity.
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Army Collection Force Kindness Kingdom Money Sincere Support Treasure True
No man underestimates the wrongs he suffers; many take them more seriously than is right.
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Himself Man Right Serious Suffering Wrong

Distinguished ancestors shed a powerful light on their descendants, and forbid the concealment either of their merits or of their demerits.

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