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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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Fame is the shadow of passion standing in the light.
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Fame Light Passion Shadow Stand
There were few who preferred honor to money.
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Honor Money Preference
It is always easy to begin a war, but very difficult to stop one.
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Beginning Difficult Easy Oneself Stop
Before you act consider; when you have considered, tis fully time to act.
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Act Action Consider Time Yourself
Necessity makes even the timid brave.
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Brave Circumstance Coward Necessary
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
Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master.
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Desire Liberty Master Men
Ambition breaks the ties of blood, and forgets the obligations of gratitude.
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Ambition Blood Bond Break Forget Gratitude Obligation
Of the bodies in the cosmos, some imitate mind and move in orbits; some imitate soul and move in a straight line, fire and air upward, earth and water downward.
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Body Cosmos Down Imitation Move On Soul Water
Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.
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Decay Fall Life Philosophy Rise
Poor Britons, there is some good in them after all – they produced an oyster.
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Goodness Pearl Production
It is sweet to surve one country by deeds, and it is not absurd to surve her by words.
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Country Herself Madness Sweet Word
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
Among intellectual pursuits, one of the most useful is the recording of past events.
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Event Intellectual Past Pursuit
We employ the mind to rule, the body to serve.
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Body Employment Mindset Rule Serve
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 own case, who have spent my whole life in the practice of virtue, right conduct from habitual has become natural.

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