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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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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
But few prize honour more than money.
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Honor Money Prize
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
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
Prosperity tries the souls even of the wise.
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Prosperity Soul Try Wisdom
A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
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Defeat Goodness Justice Man
The higher your station, the less your liberty.
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High Liberty Station Yourself
The soul is the captain and ruler of the life of morals.
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Captain Life Moral Rule Soul
Every bad precedent originated as a justifiable measure.
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Bad Measurement Origin
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
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
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
Small endeavours obtain strength by unity of action: the most powerful are broken down by discord.
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Action Break Discord Small Strength Unity
Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master.
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Desire Liberty Master Men
Among intellectual pursuits, one of the most useful is the recording of past events.
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Event Intellectual Past Pursuit
Everything destroyed is either resolved into the elements from which it came, or else vanishes into not-being. If things are resolved into the elements from which they came, then there will be others: else how did they come into being at all?
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Destroy Element Existence

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

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