Harmony makes small things grow; lack of it makes great things decay.
SALLUSTBut 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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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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Those most moved to tears by every word of a preacher are generally weak and a rascal when the feelings evaporate.
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But few prize honour more than money.
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A good man prefers to suffer rather than overcome injustice with evil.
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There were few who preferred honor to money.
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To someone seeking power, the poorest man is the most useful.
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Neither soldiers nor money can defend a king but only friends won by good deeds, merit, and honesty.
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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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To hope for safety in flight, when you have turned away from the enemy the arms by which the body is defended, is indeed madness. In battle those who are most afraid are always in most danger; but courage is equivalent to rampart.
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Poor Britons, there is some good in them after all – they produced an oyster.
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The renown which riches or beauty confer is fleeting and frail mental excellence is a splendid and lasting possession.
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No man underestimates the wrongs he suffers; many take them more seriously than is right.
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Small communities grow great through harmony, great ones fall to pieces through discord.
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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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Enough words, little wisdom.
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