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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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They envy the distinction I have won; let them therefore, envy my toils, my honesty, and the methods by which I gained it.
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Jealous Method Myself Win
Prosperity tries the souls even of the wise.
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Prosperity Soul Try Wisdom
Get good counsel before you begin; and when you have decided, act promptly.
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Act Counsel Decision Goodness Prompt
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
Among intellectual pursuits, one of the most useful is the recording of past events.
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Event Intellectual Past Pursuit
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
By union the smallest states thrive. By discord the greatest are destroyed.
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Destroy Greatness Small State Thrive
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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Assurance Bury Fate Fortune Principle Raise Rule
Distinguished ancestors shed a powerful light on their descendants, and forbid the concealment either of their merits or of their demerits.
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Advice Ancestor Help Light Powerful
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
Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master.
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Desire Liberty Master Men
Everything that rises sets, and everything that grows, grows old.
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Growth Old Rise
In my opinion it is less shameful for a king to be overcome by force of arms than by bribery.
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Arms Bribe Force Opinion Shame
Fame is the shadow of passion standing in the light.
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Fame Light Passion Shadow Stand
No man underestimates the wrongs he suffers; many take them more seriously than is right.
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Himself Man Right Serious Suffering Wrong
It is sweet to surve one country by deeds, and it is not absurd to surve her by words.
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Country Herself Madness Sweet Word

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