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Harmony makes small things grow; lack of it makes great things decay.

Sallust

When the prizes fall to the lot of the wicked, you will not find many who are virtuous for virtue’s sake.
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Fall Finding Prize Virtue Yourself
Neither soldiers nor money can defend a king but only friends won by good deeds, merit, and honesty.
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Friendship Honesty Money Soldier
But few prize honour more than money.
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Honor Money Prize
It is sweet to surve one country by deeds, and it is not absurd to surve her by words.
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Country Herself Madness Sweet Word
In victory even the cowardly like to boast, while in adverse times even the brave are discredited.
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Brave Coward Credit Time Victory
It is always easy to begin a war, but very difficult to stop one.
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Beginning Difficult Easy Oneself Stop
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
Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master.
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Desire Liberty Master Men
All men who would surpass the other animals should do their best not to pass through life silently like the beasts whom nature made prone, obedient to their bellies.
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Animal Best Life Man Obedience Stomach Through
The Gods being good and making all things, there is no positive evil, it only comes by absence of good; just as darkness itself does not exist, but only comes about by absence of light.
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Absence Darkness Existence God Goodness Light Positive
The glory of wealth and of beauty is fleeting and frail; virtue is illustrious and everlasting.
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Beautiful Glory Illustration Virtue Wealth
They envy the distinction I have won; let them therefore, envy my toils, my honesty, and the methods by which I gained it.
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Jealous Method Myself Win
The firmest friendship is based on an identity of likes and dislikes.
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Friendship Identity Nature
We employ the mind to rule, the body to serve.
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Body Employment Mindset Rule Serve
Deliberate before you begin; but, having carefully done so, execute with vigour.
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Beginning Care Execution Zeal
No grief reaches the dead.
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Death Grief One Liner Reach
To like and dislike the same things that is indeed true friendship.
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Bond Friendship True
Every bad precedent originated as a justifiable measure.
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Bad Measurement Origin
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
The soul is the captain and ruler of the life of morals.
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Captain Life Moral Rule Soul
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
To desire the same things and to reject the same things, constitutes true friendship.
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Desire Friendship Reject
A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
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Defeat Goodness Justice Man
Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.
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Decay Fall Life Philosophy Rise
In my opinion it is less shameful for a king to be overcome by force of arms than by bribery.
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Arms Bribe Force Opinion Shame
Kings are more prone to mistrust the good than the bad; and they are always afraid of the virtues of others.
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Afraid Bad Goodness Trust Virtue
Before you act consider; when you have considered, tis fully time to act.
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Act Action Consider Time Yourself

Harmony makes small things grow; lack of it makes great things decay.

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