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Kings are more prone to mistrust the good than the bad; and they are always afraid of the virtues of others.

Sallust

It is better to use fair means and fail, than foul and conquer.
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Better Conquer Failure Right Rule Win
Necessity makes even the timid brave.
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Brave Circumstance Coward Necessary
The very life which we enjoy is short.
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Enjoyment Life One Liner Short
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
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 at power or wealth, for the sake of which wars, and all kinds of strife, arise among mankind, we do not aim; we desire only our liberty, which no honorable man relinquishes but with his life.
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Desire Himself Kind Liberty Life Man Power War Wealth
We employ the mind to rule, the body to serve.
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Body Employment Mindset Rule Serve
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
Just to stir things up seemed a great reward in itself.
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Greatness Reward
Fame is the shadow of passion standing in the light.
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Fame Light Passion Shadow Stand
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
Most honorable are services rendered to the State; even if they do not go beyond words, they are not to be despised.
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Beyond Despise Honor Service State Word
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
The higher your station, the less your liberty.
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High Liberty Station Yourself
Do as much as possible, and talk of yourself as little as possible.
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Hard Work Modesty Possible Talk Yourself
Since we have received everything from the Gods, and it is right to pay the giver some tithe of his gifts, we pay such a tithe of possessions in votive offering, of bodies in gifts of (hair and) adornment, and of life in sacrifices.
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Body Gift God Pay Possession Received Sacrifice

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