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There were few who preferred honor to money.

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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 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
All men who would surpass the other animals should do their best not to pass through life silently like the beasts whom nature made prone, obedient to their bellies.
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Animal Best Life Man Obedience Stomach Through
Advise well before you begin, and when you have maturely considered, then act with promptitude.
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Act Advice Beginning Mature
Ambition breaks the ties of blood, and forgets the obligations of gratitude.
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Ambition Blood Bond Break Forget Gratitude Obligation
One can ever assume to be what he is not, and to conceal what he is.
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Assume Conceal Himself
For harmony makes small states great, while discord undermines the mightiest empires.
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Empire Greatness Harmony Small State
To have the same desires and the same aversion is assuredly a firm bond of friendship.
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Bond Desire Friendship
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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Beginning Blessing Decay Fortune Health
By union the smallest states thrive. By discord the greatest are destroyed.
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Destroy Greatness Small State Thrive
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
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
Necessity makes even the timid brave.
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Brave Circumstance Coward Necessary
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
Small communities grow great through harmony, great ones fall to pieces through discord.
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Community Discord Greatness Harmony Oneself Pieces Small
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

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