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By union the smallest states thrive. By discord the greatest are destroyed.

Sallust

Among intellectual pursuits, one of the most useful is the recording of past events.
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Event Intellectual Past Pursuit
To desire the same things and to reject the same things, constitutes true friendship.
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Desire Friendship Reject
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
Necessity makes even the timid brave.
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Brave Circumstance Coward Necessary
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
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
One can ever assume to be what he is not, and to conceal what he is.
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Assume Conceal Himself
In my opinion, he only may be truly said to live and enjoy his being who is engaged in some laudable pursuit, and acquires a name by some illustrious action, or useful art.
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Action Enjoyment Illustration Live Myself Name Opinion Pursuit True
Fortune rules in all things, and advances and depresses things more out of her own will than right and justice.
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Depression Fortune Justice Rule Willing
Before you act consider; when you have considered, tis fully time to act.
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Act Action Consider Time Yourself
Ambition breaks the ties of blood, and forgets the obligations of gratitude.
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Ambition Blood Bond Break Forget Gratitude Obligation
The firmest friendship is based on an identity of likes and dislikes.
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Friendship Identity Nature
Fame is the shadow of passion standing in the light.
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Fame Light Passion Shadow Stand
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
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
He that will be angry for anything will be angry for nothing.
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Angry Deep Emotion Feeling Himself

By union the smallest states thrive. By discord the greatest are destroyed.

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