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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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The fame that goes with wealth and beauty is fleeting and fragile; intellectual superiority is a possession glorious and eternal.
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Beautiful Fame Forever Glory Intellectual Possession Wealth
Every bad precedent originated as a justifiable measure.
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Bad Measurement Origin
Small communities grow great through harmony, great ones fall to pieces through discord.
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Community Discord Greatness Harmony Oneself Pieces Small
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
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
Everything destroyed is either resolved into the elements from which it came, or else vanishes into not-being. If things are resolved into the elements from which they came, then there will be others: else how did they come into being at all?
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Destroy Element Existence
All those who offer an opinion on any doubtful point should first clear their minds of every sentiment of dislike, friendship, anger or pity.
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Angry Doubt Friendship Offering Opinion
The firmest friendship is based on an identity of likes and dislikes.
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Friendship Identity Nature
In my opinion, he only may be truly said to live and enjoy his being who is engaged in some laudable pursuit, and acquires a name by some illustrious action, or useful art.
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Action Enjoyment Illustration Live Myself Name Opinion Pursuit True
A good man prefers to suffer rather than overcome injustice with evil.
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Evil Goodness Justice Man Preference
There were few who preferred honor to money.
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Honor Money Preference
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
It is better to use fair means and fail, than foul and conquer.
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Better Conquer Failure Right Rule Win
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
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

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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