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The glory of wealth and of beauty is fleeting and frail; virtue is illustrious and everlasting.

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Fame is the shadow of passion standing in the light.
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Fame Light Passion Shadow Stand
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
Do as much as possible, and talk of yourself as little as possible.
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Hard Work Modesty Possible Talk Yourself
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
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
Harmony makes small things grow; lack of it makes great things decay.
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Decay Deep Greatness Growth Harmony
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
Of the cosmic Gods some make the world be, others animate it, others harmonize it, consisting as it does of different elements; the fourth class keep it when harmonized.
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Animate Consist Cosmos God Harmony
Fortune rules in all things, and advances and depresses things more out of her own will than right and justice.
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Depression Fortune Justice Rule Willing
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
Greedy for the property of others, extravagant with his own
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Himself Own Property
To have the same desires and the same aversion is assuredly a firm bond of friendship.
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Bond Desire Friendship
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
All those who offer an opinion on any doubtful point should first clear their minds of every sentiment of dislike, friendship, anger or pity.
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Angry Doubt Friendship Offering Opinion
The firmest friendship is based on an identity of likes and dislikes.
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Friendship Identity Nature
It is a law of human nature that in victory even the coward may boast of his prowess, while defeat injures the reputation even of the brave.
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Brave Defeat Himself Human Law Nature Reputation Victory

The glory of wealth and of beauty is fleeting and frail; virtue is illustrious and everlasting.

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