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Fame is the shadow of passion standing in the light.

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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
There were few who preferred honor to money.
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Honor Money Preference
Ambition drove many men to become false; to have one thought locked in the breast, another ready on the tongue.
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Ambition Drive Fake Lock Man Ready Thinking
Ambition breaks the ties of blood, and forgets the obligations of gratitude.
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Ambition Blood Bond Break Forget Gratitude Obligation
To hope for safety in flight, when you have turned away from the enemy the arms by which the body is defended, is indeed madness. In battle those who are most afraid are always in most danger; but courage is equivalent to rampart.
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Afraid Body Courage Defeat Enemy Equivalent Hope Madness Safety
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
Among intellectual pursuits, one of the most useful is the recording of past events.
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Event Intellectual Past Pursuit
To like and dislike the same things that is indeed true friendship.
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Bond Friendship True
By the wicked the good conduct of others is always dreaded.
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Dread Goodness Wicked
Each man the architect of his own fate.
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Architect Fate Himself Man
Fame is the shadow of passion standing in the light.
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Fame Light Passion Shadow Stand
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
To someone seeking power, the poorest man is the most useful.
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Deep Man Poor Power Seek
To have the same desires and the same aversion is assuredly a firm bond of friendship.
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Bond Desire Friendship
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
No mortal man has ever served at the same time his passions and his best interests.
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Best Interest Man Mortal Passion Serve Time

Fame is the shadow of passion standing in the light.

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