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The man who is roused neither by glory nor by danger it is in vain to exhort; terror closes the ears of the mind.

Sallust

All persons who are enthusiastic that they should transcend the other animals ought to strive with the utmost effort not to pass through a life of silence, like cattle, which nature has fashioned to be prone and obedient to their stomachs.
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Animal Effort Nature Obedience Person Stomach Transcend
For harmony makes small states great, while discord undermines the mightiest empires.
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Empire Greatness Harmony Small State
It is a law of human nature that in victory even the coward may boast of his prowess, while defeat injures the reputation even of the brave.
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Brave Defeat Himself Human Law Nature Reputation Victory
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
Small communities grow great through harmony, great ones fall to pieces through discord.
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Community Discord Greatness Harmony Oneself Pieces Small
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
Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master.
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Desire Liberty Master Men
Of the bodies in the cosmos, some imitate mind and move in orbits; some imitate soul and move in a straight line, fire and air upward, earth and water downward.
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Body Cosmos Down Imitation Move On Soul Water
The glory of ancestors sheds a light around posterity; it allows neither good nor bad qualities to remain in obscurity.
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Ancestor Bad Glory Goodness Light Obscurity Quality
No grief reaches the dead.
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Death Grief One Liner Reach
The higher your station, the less your liberty.
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High Liberty Station Yourself
Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.
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Decay Fall Life Philosophy Rise
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
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
Everything that rises sets, and everything that grows, grows old.
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Growth Old Rise
Deliberate before you begin; but, having carefully done so, execute with vigour.
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Beginning Care Execution Zeal

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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