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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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Of the bodies in the cosmos, some imitate mind and move in orbits; some imitate soul and move in a straight line, fire and air upward, earth and water downward.
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Body Cosmos Down Imitation Move On Soul Water
Prosperity tries the souls even of the wise.
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Prosperity Soul Try Wisdom
Fame is the shadow of passion standing in the light.
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Fame Light Passion Shadow Stand
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
Enough words, little wisdom.
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Enough Wisdom Word
But few prize honour more than money.
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Honor Money Prize
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
The firmest friendship is based on an identity of likes and dislikes.
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Friendship Identity Nature
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
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
Poor Britons, there is some good in them after all – they produced an oyster.
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Goodness Pearl Production
Do as much as possible, and talk of yourself as little as possible.
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Hard Work Modesty Possible Talk Yourself
It is sweet to surve one country by deeds, and it is not absurd to surve her by words.
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Country Herself Madness Sweet Word
Neither the army nor the treasury, but friends, are the true supports of the throne; for friends cannot be collected by force of arms, nor purchased with money; they are the offspring of kindness and sincerity.
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Army Collection Force Kindness Kingdom Money Sincere Support Treasure True
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
There were few who preferred honor to money.
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Honor Money Preference

The fame that goes with wealth and beauty is fleeting and fragile; intellectual superiority is a possession glorious and eternal.

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