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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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Before you act consider; when you have considered, tis fully time to act.
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Act Action Consider Time Yourself
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
Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.
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Decay Fall Life Philosophy Rise
One can ever assume to be what he is not, and to conceal what he is.
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Assume Conceal Himself
A good man prefers to suffer rather than overcome injustice with evil.
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Evil Goodness Justice Man Preference
Each man the architect of his own fate.
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Architect Fate Himself Man
He that will be angry for anything will be angry for nothing.
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Angry Deep Emotion Feeling Himself
Prosperity tries the souls even of the wise.
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Prosperity Soul Try Wisdom
To like and dislike the same things that is indeed true friendship.
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Bond Friendship True
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
Poor Britons, there is some good in them after all – they produced an oyster.
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Goodness Pearl Production
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
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
Among intellectual pursuits, one of the most useful is the recording of past events.
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Event Intellectual Past Pursuit
The firmest friendship is based on an identity of likes and dislikes.
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Friendship Identity Nature
Of the cosmic Gods some make the world be, others animate it, others harmonize it, consisting as it does of different elements; the fourth class keep it when harmonized.
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Animate Consist Cosmos God Harmony

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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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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