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In victory even the cowardly like to boast, while in adverse times even the brave are discredited.

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Advise well before you begin, and when you have maturely considered, then act with promptitude.
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Act Advice Beginning Mature
It is sweet to surve one country by deeds, and it is not absurd to surve her by words.
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Country Herself Madness Sweet Word
Do as much as possible, and talk of yourself as little as possible.
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Hard Work Modesty Possible Talk Yourself
To someone seeking power, the poorest man is the most useful.
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Deep Man Poor Power Seek
The Romans assisted their allies and friends, and acquired friendships by giving rather than receiving kindness.
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Assistance Friendship Kindness Receive Roman
One can ever assume to be what he is not, and to conceal what he is.
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Assume Conceal Himself
Of the bodies in the cosmos, some imitate mind and move in orbits; some imitate soul and move in a straight line, fire and air upward, earth and water downward.
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Body Cosmos Down Imitation Move On Soul Water
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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Character Life Natural Practice Right Virtue
It is impossible that there should be so much providence in the last details, and none in the first principles. Then the arts of prophecy and of healing, which are part of the cosmos, come of the good providence of the Gods.
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Cosmos Detail God Healing Impossible Principle
For men who had easily endured hardship, danger and difficult uncertainty, leisure and riches, though in some ways desirable, proved burdensome and a source of grief.
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Dangerous Desire Easy Endurance Men Source Way
But the case has proved that to be true which Appius says in his songs, that each man is the maker of his own fate.
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Creator Fate Man Song True
When the prizes fall to the lot of the wicked, you will not find many who are virtuous for virtue’s sake.
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Fall Finding Prize Virtue Yourself
It is always easy to begin a war, but very difficult to stop one.
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Beginning Difficult Easy Oneself Stop
The soul is the captain and ruler of the life of morals.
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Captain Life Moral Rule Soul
Ambition drove many men to become false; to have one thought locked in the breast, another ready on the tongue.
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Ambition Drive Fake Lock Man Ready Thinking
The glory of riches and of beauty is frail and transitory; virtue remains bright and eternal.
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Beautiful Bright Forever Fragile Glory Rich

In victory even the cowardly like to boast, while in adverse times even the brave are discredited.

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