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320.

When angry, a man has deserted his body.

321.

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

322.

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

323.

We die, as often as we lose a friend.

324.

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

325.

Necessity is a law that justifies itself.

326.

Success makes some crimes honorable.

327.

An honorable death is better than a disgraceful life.

328.

Honors are soiled when they invest the unworthy.

329.

The well-born should not live base lives.

330.

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

331.

To submit to necessity involves no disgrace.

332.

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

333.

That is the noblest emulation which humanity prompts.

334.

Humility neither falls far, nor heavily.