One can ever assume to be what he is not, and to conceal what he is.
SALLUSTFor 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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Not by vows nor by womanish prayers is the help of the gods obtained; success comes through vigilance, energy, wise counsel.
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Ambition drove many men to become false; to have one thought locked in the breast, another ready on the tongue.
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Sovereignty is easily preserved by the very arts by which it was originally created. When, however, energy has given place to indifference, and temperance and justice to passion and arrogance, then as the morals change so changes fortune.
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Enough words, little wisdom.
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In my opinion it is less shameful for a king to be overcome by force of arms than by bribery.
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The renown which riches or beauty confer is fleeting and frail mental excellence is a splendid and lasting possession.
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Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.
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Kings are more prone to mistrust the good than the bad; and they are always afraid of the virtues of others.
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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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Neither soldiers nor money can defend a king but only friends won by good deeds, merit, and honesty.
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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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All who consult on doubtful matters, should be void of hatred, friendship, anger, and pity.
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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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The soul is the captain and ruler of the life of morals.
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There were few who preferred honor to money.
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No grief reaches the dead.
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In my opinion, he only may be truly said to live and enjoy his being who is engaged in some laudable pursuit, and acquires a name by some illustrious action, or useful art.
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Greedy for the property of others, extravagant with his own
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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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Everything destroyed is either resolved into the elements from which it came, or else vanishes into not-being. If things are resolved into the elements from which they came, then there will be others: else how did they come into being at all?
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To have the same desires and the same aversion is assuredly a firm bond of friendship.
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Among intellectual pursuits, one of the most useful is the recording of past events.
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The man who is roused neither by glory nor by danger it is in vain to exhort; terror closes the ears of the mind.
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Everything that rises sets, and everything that grows, grows old.
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It is better to use fair means and fail, than foul and conquer.
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Ambition breaks the ties of blood, and forgets the obligations of gratitude.
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