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

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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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Animal Effort Nature Obedience Person Stomach Transcend
But at power or wealth, for the sake of which wars, and all kinds of strife, arise among mankind, we do not aim; we desire only our liberty, which no honorable man relinquishes but with his life.
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Desire Himself Kind Liberty Life Man Power War Wealth
Fame is the shadow of passion standing in the light.
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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
For harmony makes small states great, while discord undermines the mightiest empires.
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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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Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.
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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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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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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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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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The glory of wealth and of beauty is fleeting and frail; virtue is illustrious and everlasting.
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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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The glory of riches and of beauty is frail and transitory; virtue remains bright and eternal.
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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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In my opinion, he only may be truly said to live and enjoy his being who is engaged in some laudable pursuit, and acquires a name by some illustrious action, or useful art.
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The glory of riches and of beauty is frail and transitory; virtue remains bright and eternal.

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