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

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It is better to use fair means and fail, than foul and conquer.
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Better Conquer Failure Right Rule Win
We employ the mind to rule, the body to serve.
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Body Employment Mindset Rule Serve
Advise well before you begin, and when you have maturely considered, then act with promptitude.
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Act Advice Beginning Mature
The higher your station, the less your liberty.
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High Liberty Station Yourself
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
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
Among intellectual pursuits, one of the most useful is the recording of past events.
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Event Intellectual Past Pursuit
Every bad precedent originated as a justifiable measure.
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Bad Measurement Origin
Ambition breaks the ties of blood, and forgets the obligations of gratitude.
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Ambition Blood Bond Break Forget Gratitude Obligation
It is always easy to begin a war, but very difficult to stop one.
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Beginning Difficult Easy Oneself Stop
Get good counsel before you begin; and when you have decided, act promptly.
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Act Counsel Decision Goodness Prompt
Everything that rises sets, and everything that grows, grows old.
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Growth Old Rise
There were few who preferred honor to money.
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Honor Money Preference
The fame which is based on wealth or beauty is a frail and fleeting thing; but virtue shines for ages with undiminished lustre.
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Age Fame Luster Virtual Wealth
Greedy for the property of others, extravagant with his own
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Himself Own Property
To like and dislike the same things that is indeed true friendship.
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Bond Friendship True

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

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