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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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The soul is the captain and ruler of the life of morals.
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Captain Life Moral Rule Soul
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
By union the smallest states thrive. By discord the greatest are destroyed.
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Destroy Greatness Small State Thrive
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
By the wicked the good conduct of others is always dreaded.
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Dread Goodness Wicked
Every bad precedent originated as a justifiable measure.
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Bad Measurement Origin
The renown which riches or beauty confer is fleeting and frail mental excellence is a splendid and lasting possession.
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Beautiful Excellence Mental Possession Rich
Do as much as possible, and talk of yourself as little as possible.
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Hard Work Modesty Possible Talk Yourself
A good man prefers to suffer rather than overcome injustice with evil.
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Evil Goodness Justice Man Preference
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
But assuredly Fortune rules in all things; she raised to eminence or buries in oblivion everything from caprice rather than from well-regulated principle.
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Assurance Bury Fate Fortune Principle Raise Rule
Advise well before you begin, and when you have maturely considered, then act with promptitude.
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Act Advice Beginning Mature
Sovereignty is easily preserved by the very arts by which it was originally created. When, however, energy has given place to indifference, and temperance and justice to passion and arrogance, then as the morals change so changes fortune.
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Arrogance Art Change Creation Easy Fortune Justice Original Place Preserve
It is a law of human nature that in victory even the coward may boast of his prowess, while defeat injures the reputation even of the brave.
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Brave Defeat Himself Human Law Nature Reputation Victory
Necessity makes even the timid brave.
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Brave Circumstance Coward Necessary
Kings are more prone to mistrust the good than the bad; and they are always afraid of the virtues of others.
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Afraid Bad Goodness Trust Virtue

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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