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Fame is the shadow of passion standing in the light.

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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 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
Deliberate before you begin; but, having carefully done so, execute with vigour.
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Beginning Care Execution Zeal
The poorest of men are the most useful to those seeking power.
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Man Poor Power Seek Useful
It is better to use fair means and fail, than foul and conquer.
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Better Conquer Failure Right Rule Win
Small communities grow great through harmony, great ones fall to pieces through discord.
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Community Discord Greatness Harmony Oneself Pieces Small
But few prize honour more than money.
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Honor Money Prize
No man underestimates the wrongs he suffers; many take them more seriously than is right.
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Himself Man Right Serious Suffering Wrong
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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Dangerous Glory Man Mindset Terror
No grief reaches the dead.
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Death Grief One Liner Reach
Distinguished ancestors shed a powerful light on their descendants, and forbid the concealment either of their merits or of their demerits.
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Advice Ancestor Help Light Powerful
There were few who preferred honor to money.
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Honor Money Preference
A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
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Defeat Goodness Justice Man
It is always easy enough to take up arms, but very difficult to lay them down; the commencement and the termination of war are not necessarily in the same hands; even a coward may begin, but the end comes only when the victors are willing.
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Coward Difficult Easy Enough Hands Necessary War Willing
The glory of ancestors sheds a light around posterity; it allows neither good nor bad qualities to remain in obscurity.
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Ancestor Bad Glory Goodness Light Obscurity Quality
In my opinion it is less shameful for a king to be overcome by force of arms than by bribery.
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Arms Bribe Force Opinion Shame

Fame is the shadow of passion standing in the light.

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