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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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Greedy for the property of others, extravagant with his own
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Himself Own Property
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
Enough words, little wisdom.
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Enough Wisdom Word
No grief reaches the dead.
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Death Grief One Liner Reach
Harmony makes small things grow; lack of it makes great things decay.
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Decay Deep Greatness Growth Harmony
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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Advice Ancestor Help Light Powerful
Prosperity tries the souls even of the wise.
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Prosperity Soul Try Wisdom
Just to stir things up seemed a great reward in itself.
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Greatness Reward
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
The very life which we enjoy is short.
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Enjoyment Life One Liner Short
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 prefers to suffer rather than overcome injustice with evil.
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Evil Goodness Justice Man Preference
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
In victory even the cowardly like to boast, while in adverse times even the brave are discredited.
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Brave Coward Credit Time Victory
Among intellectual pursuits, one of the most useful is the recording of past events.
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Event Intellectual Past Pursuit
Everything destroyed is either resolved into the elements from which it came, or else vanishes into not-being. If things are resolved into the elements from which they came, then there will be others: else how did they come into being at all?
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Destroy Element Existence
We employ the mind to rule, the body to serve.
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Body Employment Mindset Rule Serve
But at power or wealth, for the sake of which wars, and all kinds of strife, arise among mankind, we do not aim; we desire only our liberty, which no honorable man relinquishes but with his life.
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Desire Himself Kind Liberty Life Man Power War Wealth
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
There were few who preferred honor to money.
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Honor Money Preference
By the wicked the good conduct of others is always dreaded.
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Dread Goodness Wicked
The fame which is based on wealth or beauty is a frail and fleeting thing; but virtue shines for ages with undiminished lustre.
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Age Fame Luster Virtual Wealth
A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
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Defeat Goodness Justice Man
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
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
Necessity makes even the timid brave.
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Brave Circumstance Coward Necessary
To like and dislike the same things that is indeed true friendship.
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Bond Friendship True

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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