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 236. If men must needs be born into the world, let them earn glory : as to those who earn it not, it were better for them not to have been born at all.

237. Those that are not free from blemish chafe not at themselves : why then are they wroth against their calumniators ?

238. It is a disgrace for all men if they earn not the memory called fame.

239. Behold the land weighed down beneath the tread of an inglorious people : its riches, even though renowned in the past, will wane away.

240. They alone live who live without blemish : and they alone die who have lived without glory.

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