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The glory of riches and of beauty is frail and transitory; virtue remains bright and eternal.

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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
To like and dislike the same things that is indeed true friendship.
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Bond Friendship True
The soul is the captain and ruler of the life of morals.
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Captain Life Moral Rule Soul
We employ the mind to rule, the body to serve.
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Body Employment Mindset Rule Serve
Neither the army nor the treasury, but friends, are the true supports of the throne; for friends cannot be collected by force of arms, nor purchased with money; they are the offspring of kindness and sincerity.
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Army Collection Force Kindness Kingdom Money Sincere Support Treasure True
To someone seeking power, the poorest man is the most useful.
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Deep Man Poor Power Seek
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
It is sweet to surve one country by deeds, and it is not absurd to surve her by words.
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Country Herself Madness Sweet Word
To desire the same things and to reject the same things, constitutes true friendship.
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Desire Friendship Reject
Those most moved to tears by every word of a preacher are generally weak and a rascal when the feelings evaporate.
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Evaporate Feeling General Move Tears Weakness Word
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
As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.
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Beginning Blessing Decay Fortune Health
It is always easy to begin a war, but very difficult to stop one.
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Beginning Difficult Easy Oneself Stop
Greedy for the property of others, extravagant with his own
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Himself Own Property
Deliberate before you begin; but, having carefully done so, execute with vigour.
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Beginning Care Execution Zeal
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

The glory of riches and of beauty is frail and transitory; virtue remains bright and eternal.

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