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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We employ the mind to rule, the body to serve.
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Everything that rises sets, and everything that grows, grows old.
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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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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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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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