In victory even the cowardly like to boast, while in adverse times even the brave are discredited.
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But assuredly Fortune rules in all things; she raised to eminence or buries in oblivion everything from caprice rather than from well-regulated principle.
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In victory even the cowardly like to boast, while in adverse times even the brave are discredited.
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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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A good man prefers to suffer rather than overcome injustice with evil.
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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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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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The glory of ancestors sheds a light around posterity; it allows neither good nor bad qualities to remain in obscurity.
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Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master.
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In my own case, who have spent my whole life in the practice of virtue, right conduct from habitual has become natural.
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Of the cosmic Gods some make the world be, others animate it, others harmonize it, consisting as it does of different elements; the fourth class keep it when harmonized.
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The glory of wealth and of beauty is fleeting and frail; virtue is illustrious and everlasting.
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But assuredly Fortune rules in all things; she raised to eminence or buries in oblivion everything from caprice rather than from well-regulated principle.
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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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Poor Britons, there is some good in them after all – they produced an oyster.
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Small communities grow great through harmony, great ones fall to pieces through discord.
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The Romans assisted their allies and friends, and acquired friendships by giving rather than receiving kindness.
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It is a law of human nature that in victory even the coward may boast of his prowess, while defeat injures the reputation even of the brave.
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