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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
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
To hope for safety in flight, when you have turned away from the enemy the arms by which the body is defended, is indeed madness. In battle those who are most afraid are always in most danger; but courage is equivalent to rampart.
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Afraid Body Courage Defeat Enemy Equivalent Hope Madness Safety
Kings are more prone to mistrust the good than the bad; and they are always afraid of the virtues of others.
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Afraid Bad Goodness Trust Virtue
To have the same desires and the same aversion is assuredly a firm bond of friendship.
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Bond Desire Friendship
By union the smallest states thrive. By discord the greatest are destroyed.
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Destroy Greatness Small State Thrive
Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.
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Decay Fall Life Philosophy Rise
Ambition breaks the ties of blood, and forgets the obligations of gratitude.
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Ambition Blood Bond Break Forget Gratitude Obligation
But at power or wealth, for the sake of which wars, and all kinds of strife, arise among mankind, we do not aim; we desire only our liberty, which no honorable man relinquishes but with his life.
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Desire Himself Kind Liberty Life Man Power War Wealth
There were few who preferred honor to money.
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Honor Money Preference
By the wicked the good conduct of others is always dreaded.
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Dread Goodness Wicked
Most honorable are services rendered to the State; even if they do not go beyond words, they are not to be despised.
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Beyond Despise Honor Service State Word
It is impossible that there should be so much providence in the last details, and none in the first principles. Then the arts of prophecy and of healing, which are part of the cosmos, come of the good providence of the Gods.
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Cosmos Detail God Healing Impossible Principle
Prosperity tries the souls even of the wise.
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Prosperity Soul Try Wisdom
The poorest of men are the most useful to those seeking power.
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Man Poor Power Seek Useful
Among intellectual pursuits, one of the most useful is the recording of past events.
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Event Intellectual Past Pursuit

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