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

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For harmony makes small states great, while discord undermines the mightiest empires.
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Empire Greatness Harmony Small State
In my own case, who have spent my whole life in the practice of virtue, right conduct from habitual has become natural.
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Character Life Natural Practice Right Virtue
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
It is impossible that there should be so much providence in the last details, and none in the first principles. Then the arts of prophecy and of healing, which are part of the cosmos, come of the good providence of the Gods.
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Cosmos Detail God Healing Impossible Principle
By union the smallest states thrive. By discord the greatest are destroyed.
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Destroy Greatness Small State Thrive
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
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
Necessity makes even the timid brave.
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Brave Circumstance Coward Necessary
But few prize honour more than money.
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Honor Money Prize
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
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
To desire the same things and to reject the same things, constitutes true friendship.
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Desire Friendship Reject
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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No man underestimates the wrongs he suffers; many take them more seriously than is right.
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No grief reaches the dead.
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Death Grief One Liner Reach

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

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