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

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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
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
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
Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master.
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Desire Liberty Master Men
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
To someone seeking power, the poorest man is the most useful.
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Deep Man Poor Power Seek
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
Advise well before you begin, and when you have maturely considered, then act with promptitude.
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Act Advice Beginning Mature
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
Prosperity tries the souls even of the wise.
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Prosperity Soul Try Wisdom
To desire the same things and to reject the same things, constitutes true friendship.
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Desire Friendship Reject
They envy the distinction I have won; let them therefore, envy my toils, my honesty, and the methods by which I gained it.
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Jealous Method Myself Win
Poor Britons, there is some good in them after all – they produced an oyster.
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Goodness Pearl Production
Since we have received everything from the Gods, and it is right to pay the giver some tithe of his gifts, we pay such a tithe of possessions in votive offering, of bodies in gifts of (hair and) adornment, and of life in sacrifices.
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Body Gift God Pay Possession Received Sacrifice
The renown which riches or beauty confer is fleeting and frail mental excellence is a splendid and lasting possession.
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Beautiful Excellence Mental Possession Rich
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

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

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