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 When angry, a man has deserted his body.

Men made Fortune a goddess, that misfortune might be certain.

It is easy for men to say one thing, and think another.

We die, as often as we lose a friend.

Man's life is a loan, not a gift.

Necessity is a law that justifies itself.

Success makes some crimes honorable.

An honorable death is better than a disgraceful life.

Honors are soiled when they invest the unworthy.

The well-born should not live base lives.

It is right to spare the guilty, when you thereby shield the innocent.

To submit to necessity involves no disgrace.

Honors adorn the worthy; they are stigma to the undeserving.

That is the noblest emulation which humanity prompts.

Humility neither falls far, nor heavily.