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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.

Sallust

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
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
A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
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Defeat Goodness Justice Man
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
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
Since we have received everything from the Gods, and it is right to pay the giver some tithe of his gifts, we pay such a tithe of possessions in votive offering, of bodies in gifts of (hair and) adornment, and of life in sacrifices.
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Body Gift God Pay Possession Received Sacrifice
Poor Britons, there is some good in them after all – they produced an oyster.
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Goodness Pearl Production
But at power or wealth, for the sake of which wars, and all kinds of strife, arise among mankind, we do not aim; we desire only our liberty, which no honorable man relinquishes but with his life.
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Desire Himself Kind Liberty Life Man Power War Wealth
Greedy for the property of others, extravagant with his own
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Himself Own Property
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
The fame which is based on wealth or beauty is a frail and fleeting thing; but virtue shines for ages with undiminished lustre.
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Age Fame Luster Virtual Wealth
We employ the mind to rule, the body to serve.
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Body Employment Mindset Rule Serve
For harmony makes small states great, while discord undermines the mightiest empires.
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Empire Greatness Harmony Small State
It is better to use fair means and fail, than foul and conquer.
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Better Conquer Failure Right Rule Win
Enough words, little wisdom.
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Enough Wisdom Word
Deliberate before you begin; but, having carefully done so, execute with vigour.
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Beginning Care Execution Zeal

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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