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Fame is the shadow of passion standing in the light.

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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
The renown which riches or beauty confer is fleeting and frail mental excellence is a splendid and lasting possession.
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Beautiful Excellence Mental Possession Rich
Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.
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Decay Fall Life Philosophy Rise
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
The very life which we enjoy is short.
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Enjoyment Life One Liner Short
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
Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master.
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Desire Liberty Master Men
Prosperity tries the souls even of the wise.
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Prosperity Soul Try Wisdom
For men who had easily endured hardship, danger and difficult uncertainty, leisure and riches, though in some ways desirable, proved burdensome and a source of grief.
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Dangerous Desire Easy Endurance Men Source Way
Fame is the shadow of passion standing in the light.
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Fame Light Passion Shadow Stand
To desire the same things and to reject the same things, constitutes true friendship.
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Desire Friendship Reject
Every bad precedent originated as a justifiable measure.
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Bad Measurement Origin
Everything that rises sets, and everything that grows, grows old.
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Growth Old Rise
Advise well before you begin, and when you have maturely considered, then act with promptitude.
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Act Advice Beginning Mature
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
Each man the architect of his own fate.
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Architect Fate Himself Man
Not by vows nor by womanish prayers is the help of the gods obtained; success comes through vigilance, energy, wise counsel.
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Counsel Energy God Help Prayer Promise Success Vow Wisdom
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
One can ever assume to be what he is not, and to conceal what he is.
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Assume Conceal Himself
There were few who preferred honor to money.
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Honor Money Preference
Most honorable are services rendered to the State; even if they do not go beyond words, they are not to be despised.
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Beyond Despise Honor Service State Word
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
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
The poorest of men are the most useful to those seeking power.
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Man Poor Power Seek Useful
To someone seeking power, the poorest man is the most useful.
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Deep Man Poor Power Seek
In battle it is the cowards who run the most risk; bravery is a rampart of defense.
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Battle Brave Coward Defense Risk Run
But the case has proved that to be true which Appius says in his songs, that each man is the maker of his own fate.
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Creator Fate Man Song True

Fame is the shadow of passion standing in the light.

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