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

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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
The glory of riches and of beauty is frail and transitory; virtue remains bright and eternal.
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Beautiful Bright Forever Fragile Glory Rich
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
Deliberate before you begin; but, having carefully done so, execute with vigour.
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Beginning Care Execution Zeal
A good man prefers to suffer rather than overcome injustice with evil.
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Evil Goodness Justice Man Preference
It is always easy to begin a war, but very difficult to stop one.
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Beginning Difficult Easy Oneself Stop
Before you act consider; when you have considered, tis fully time to act.
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Act Action Consider Time Yourself
A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
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Defeat Goodness Justice Man
Enough words, little wisdom.
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Enough Wisdom Word
Ambition breaks the ties of blood, and forgets the obligations of gratitude.
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Ambition Blood Bond Break Forget Gratitude Obligation
Do as much as possible, and talk of yourself as little as possible.
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Hard Work Modesty Possible Talk Yourself
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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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
Everything destroyed is either resolved into the elements from which it came, or else vanishes into not-being. If things are resolved into the elements from which they came, then there will be others: else how did they come into being at all?
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Destroy Element Existence
All persons who are enthusiastic that they should transcend the other animals ought to strive with the utmost effort not to pass through a life of silence, like cattle, which nature has fashioned to be prone and obedient to their stomachs.
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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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The glory of riches and of beauty is frail and transitory; virtue remains bright and eternal.

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