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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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Get good counsel before you begin; and when you have decided, act promptly.
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Act Counsel Decision Goodness Prompt
Necessity makes even the timid brave.
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Brave Circumstance Coward Necessary
Ambition breaks the ties of blood, and forgets the obligations of gratitude.
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Ambition Blood Bond Break Forget Gratitude Obligation
All persons who are enthusiastic that they should transcend the other animals ought to strive with the utmost effort not to pass through a life of silence, like cattle, which nature has fashioned to be prone and obedient to their stomachs.
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Animal Effort Nature Obedience Person Stomach Transcend
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 soul is the captain and ruler of the life of morals.
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Captain Life Moral Rule Soul
To desire the same things and to reject the same things, constitutes true friendship.
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Desire Friendship Reject
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
Enough words, little wisdom.
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Enough Wisdom Word
Not by vows nor by womanish prayers is the help of the gods obtained; success comes through vigilance, energy, wise counsel.
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Counsel Energy God Help Prayer Promise Success Vow Wisdom
Deliberate before you begin; but, having carefully done so, execute with vigour.
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Beginning Care Execution Zeal
We employ the mind to rule, the body to serve.
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Body Employment Mindset Rule Serve
The firmest friendship is based on an identity of likes and dislikes.
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Friendship Identity Nature
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
Poor Britons, there is some good in them after all – they produced an oyster.
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Goodness Pearl Production
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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