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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

Harmony makes small things grow; lack of it makes great things decay.
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Decay Deep Greatness Growth Harmony
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
Ambition breaks the ties of blood, and forgets the obligations of gratitude.
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Ambition Blood Bond Break Forget Gratitude Obligation
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
It is always easy enough to take up arms, but very difficult to lay them down; the commencement and the termination of war are not necessarily in the same hands; even a coward may begin, but the end comes only when the victors are willing.
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Coward Difficult Easy Enough Hands Necessary War Willing
For harmony makes small states great, while discord undermines the mightiest empires.
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Empire Greatness Harmony Small State
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
As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.
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Beginning Blessing Decay Fortune Health
A good man prefers to suffer rather than overcome injustice with evil.
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Evil Goodness Justice Man Preference
By union the smallest states thrive. By discord the greatest are destroyed.
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Destroy Greatness Small State Thrive
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
Every bad precedent originated as a justifiable measure.
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Bad Measurement Origin
Distinguished ancestors shed a powerful light on their descendants, and forbid the concealment either of their merits or of their demerits.
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Advice Ancestor Help Light Powerful
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
Deliberate before you begin; but, having carefully done so, execute with vigour.
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Beginning Care Execution Zeal
Necessity makes even the timid brave.
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Brave Circumstance Coward Necessary

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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