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• As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall,…
• Prosperity tries the souls even of the wise.
• It is the nature of ambition to make men liars and cheats, to hide the truth in their breasts, and show, like…
• To like and dislike the same things that is indeed true friendship.
• The fame that goes with wealth and beauty is fleeting and fragile; intellectual superiority is a possession glorious and eternal.
• But at power or wealth, for the sake of which wars, and all kinds of strife, arise among mankind, we do not…
• To someone seeking power, the poorest man is the most useful.
• In my opinion, he only may be truly said to live and enjoy his being who is engaged in some laudable pursuit,…

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