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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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Advise well before you begin, and when you have maturely considered, then act with promptitude.
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Act Advice Beginning Mature
To have the same desires and the same aversion is assuredly a firm bond of friendship.
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Bond Desire Friendship
The firmest friendship is based on an identity of likes and dislikes.
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Friendship Identity Nature
One can ever assume to be what he is not, and to conceal what he is.
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Assume Conceal Himself
Fortune rules in all things, and advances and depresses things more out of her own will than right and justice.
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Depression Fortune Justice Rule Willing
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
Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master.
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Desire Liberty Master Men
The Gods being good and making all things, there is no positive evil, it only comes by absence of good; just as darkness itself does not exist, but only comes about by absence of light.
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Absence Darkness Existence God Goodness Light Positive
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
Before you act consider; when you have considered, tis fully time to act.
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Act Action Consider Time Yourself
To desire the same things and to reject the same things, constitutes true friendship.
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Desire Friendship Reject
Greedy for the property of others, extravagant with his own
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Himself Own Property
The man who is roused neither by glory nor by danger it is in vain to exhort; terror closes the ears of the mind.
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Dangerous Glory Man Mindset Terror
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
Necessity makes even the timid brave.
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Brave Circumstance Coward Necessary
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

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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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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