The renown which riches or beauty confer is fleeting and frail mental excellence is a splendid and lasting possession.

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The renown which riches or beauty confer is fleeting and frail; mental excellence is a splendid and lasting possession.

Sallust in The War with Catiline
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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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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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The fame that goes with wealth and beauty is fleeting and fragile; intellectual superiority is a possession glorious and eternal.

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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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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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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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As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.

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He only seems to me to live, and to make proper use of life, who sets himself some serious work to do, and seeks the credit of a task well and skillfully performed.

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