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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.

Sallust

But few prize honour more than money.
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Honor Money Prize
It is always easy to begin a war, but very difficult to stop one.
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Beginning Difficult Easy Oneself Stop
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
The poorest of men are the most useful to those seeking power.
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Man Poor Power Seek Useful
To desire the same things and to reject the same things, constitutes true friendship.
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Desire Friendship Reject
To have the same desires and the same aversion is assuredly a firm bond of friendship.
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Bond Desire Friendship
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
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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Counsel Energy God Help Prayer Promise Success Vow Wisdom
Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master.
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Desire Liberty Master Men
We employ the mind to rule, the body to serve.
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Body Employment Mindset Rule Serve
For 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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Dangerous Desire Easy Endurance Men Source Way
All who consult on doubtful matters, should be void of hatred, friendship, anger, and pity.
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Angry Doubt Friendship Hate Pity
Advise well before you begin, and when you have maturely considered, then act with promptitude.
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Act Advice Beginning Mature
He that will be angry for anything will be angry for nothing.
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Angry Deep Emotion Feeling Himself
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
No mortal man has ever served at the same time his passions and his best interests.
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Best Interest Man Mortal Passion Serve Time

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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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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