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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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There were few who preferred honor to money.
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Honor Money Preference
The poorest of men are the most useful to those seeking power.
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Man Poor Power Seek Useful
They envy the distinction I have won; let them therefore, envy my toils, my honesty, and the methods by which I gained it.
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Jealous Method Myself Win
Deliberate before you begin; but, having carefully done so, execute with vigour.
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Beginning Care Execution Zeal
Greedy for the property of others, extravagant with his own
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Himself Own Property
Ambition breaks the ties of blood, and forgets the obligations of gratitude.
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Ambition Blood Bond Break Forget Gratitude Obligation
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
Most honorable are services rendered to the State; even if they do not go beyond words, they are not to be despised.
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Beyond Despise Honor Service State Word
Just to stir things up seemed a great reward in itself.
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Greatness Reward
To desire the same things and to reject the same things, constitutes true friendship.
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Desire Friendship Reject
Fame is the shadow of passion standing in the light.
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Fame Light Passion Shadow Stand
The glory of wealth and of beauty is fleeting and frail; virtue is illustrious and everlasting.
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Beautiful Glory Illustration Virtue Wealth
Since we have received everything from the Gods, and it is right to pay the giver some tithe of his gifts, we pay such a tithe of possessions in votive offering, of bodies in gifts of (hair and) adornment, and of life in sacrifices.
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Body Gift God Pay Possession Received Sacrifice
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
It is always easy to begin a war, but very difficult to stop one.
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Beginning Difficult Easy Oneself Stop
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

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