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

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He that will be angry for anything will be angry for nothing.
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Angry Deep Emotion Feeling Himself
Poor Britons, there is some good in them after all – they produced an oyster.
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Goodness Pearl Production
Advise well before you begin, and when you have maturely considered, then act with promptitude.
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Act Advice Beginning Mature
To like and dislike the same things that is indeed true friendship.
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Bond Friendship 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
For harmony makes small states great, while discord undermines the mightiest empires.
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Empire Greatness Harmony Small State
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 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
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
Small communities grow great through harmony, great ones fall to pieces through discord.
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Community Discord Greatness Harmony Oneself Pieces Small
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
Get good counsel before you begin; and when you have decided, act promptly.
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Act Counsel Decision Goodness Prompt
Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master.
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Desire Liberty Master Men
Everything that rises sets, and everything that grows, grows old.
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Growth Old Rise
We employ the mind to rule, the body to serve.
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Body Employment Mindset Rule Serve
Sovereignty is easily preserved by the very arts by which it was originally created. When, however, energy has given place to indifference, and temperance and justice to passion and arrogance, then as the morals change so changes fortune.
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Arrogance Art Change Creation Easy Fortune Justice Original Place Preserve

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

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