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

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The firmest friendship is based on an identity of likes and dislikes.
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Friendship Identity Nature
Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master.
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Desire Liberty Master Men
By union the smallest states thrive. By discord the greatest are destroyed.
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Destroy Greatness Small State Thrive
Do as much as possible, and talk of yourself as little as possible.
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Hard Work Modesty Possible Talk Yourself
The glory of ancestors sheds a light around posterity; it allows neither good nor bad qualities to remain in obscurity.
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Ancestor Bad Glory Goodness Light Obscurity Quality
A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
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Defeat Goodness Justice Man
A good man prefers to suffer rather than overcome injustice with evil.
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Evil Goodness Justice Man Preference
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
We employ the mind to rule, the body to serve.
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Body Employment Mindset Rule Serve
In victory even the cowardly like to boast, while in adverse times even the brave are discredited.
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Brave Coward Credit Time Victory
The soul is the captain and ruler of the life of morals.
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Captain Life Moral Rule Soul
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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Body Cosmos Down Imitation Move On Soul Water
For harmony makes small states great, while discord undermines the mightiest empires.
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Empire Greatness Harmony Small State
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 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
Small communities grow great through harmony, great ones fall to pieces through discord.
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Community Discord Greatness Harmony Oneself Pieces Small

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

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