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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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Since we have received everything from the Gods, and it is right to pay the giver some tithe of his gifts, we pay such a tithe of possessions in votive offering, of bodies in gifts of (hair and) adornment, and of life in sacrifices.
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Body Gift God Pay Possession Received Sacrifice
By the wicked the good conduct of others is always dreaded.
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Dread Goodness Wicked
The higher your station, the less your liberty.
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High Liberty Station Yourself
The very life which we enjoy is short.
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Enjoyment Life One Liner Short
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
Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master.
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Desire Liberty Master Men
Deliberate before you begin; but, having carefully done so, execute with vigour.
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Beginning Care Execution Zeal
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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Brave Defeat Himself Human Law Nature Reputation Victory
Neither soldiers nor money can defend a king but only friends won by good deeds, merit, and honesty.
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Friendship Honesty Money Soldier
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
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
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
Harmony makes small things grow; lack of it makes great things decay.
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Decay Deep Greatness Growth Harmony
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
A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
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Defeat Goodness Justice Man
We employ the mind to rule, the body to serve.
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Body Employment Mindset Rule Serve

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