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

Sallust

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
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
There were few who preferred honor to money.
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Honor Money Preference
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
By the wicked the good conduct of others is always dreaded.
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Dread Goodness Wicked
Every bad precedent originated as a justifiable measure.
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Bad Measurement Origin
Just to stir things up seemed a great reward in itself.
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Greatness Reward
The glory of ancestors sheds a light around posterity; it allows neither good nor bad qualities to remain in obscurity.
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Ancestor Bad Glory Goodness Light Obscurity Quality
Neither soldiers nor money can defend a king but only friends won by good deeds, merit, and honesty.
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Friendship Honesty Money Soldier
Necessity makes even the timid brave.
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Brave Circumstance Coward Necessary
Everything that rises sets, and everything that grows, grows old.
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Growth Old Rise
Deliberate before you begin; but, having carefully done so, execute with vigour.
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Beginning Care Execution Zeal
He that will be angry for anything will be angry for nothing.
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Angry Deep Emotion Feeling Himself
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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Arrogance Art Change Creation Easy Fortune Justice Original Place Preserve
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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