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The Romans assisted their allies and friends, and acquired friendships by giving rather than receiving kindness.

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The poorest of men are the most useful to those seeking power.
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Man Poor Power Seek Useful
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
Prosperity tries the souls even of the wise.
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Prosperity Soul Try Wisdom
No grief reaches the dead.
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Death Grief One Liner Reach
The fame that goes with wealth and beauty is fleeting and fragile; intellectual superiority is a possession glorious and eternal.
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Beautiful Fame Forever Glory Intellectual Possession Wealth
But assuredly Fortune rules in all things; she raised to eminence or buries in oblivion everything from caprice rather than from well-regulated principle.
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Assurance Bury Fate Fortune Principle Raise Rule
Small endeavours obtain strength by unity of action: the most powerful are broken down by discord.
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Action Break Discord Small Strength Unity
The renown which riches or beauty confer is fleeting and frail mental excellence is a splendid and lasting possession.
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Beautiful Excellence Mental Possession Rich
Necessity makes even the timid brave.
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Brave Circumstance Coward Necessary
Of the cosmic Gods some make the world be, others animate it, others harmonize it, consisting as it does of different elements; the fourth class keep it when harmonized.
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Animate Consist Cosmos God Harmony
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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Destroy Element Existence
Deliberate before you begin; but, having carefully done so, execute with vigour.
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Beginning Care Execution Zeal
The soul is the captain and ruler of the life of morals.
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Captain Life Moral Rule Soul
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
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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Dangerous Glory Man Mindset Terror
A good man prefers to suffer rather than overcome injustice with evil.
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Evil Goodness Justice Man Preference

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