Not by vows nor by womanish prayers is the help of the gods obtained; success comes through vigilance, energy, wise counsel.
SALLUSTOf 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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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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A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
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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.
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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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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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It is sweet to surve one country by deeds, and it is not absurd to surve her by words.
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For harmony makes small states great, while discord undermines the mightiest empires.
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Harmony makes small things grow; lack of it makes great things decay.
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Each man the architect of his own fate.
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In my own case, who have spent my whole life in the practice of virtue, right conduct from habitual has become natural.
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Sovereignty is easily preserved by the very arts by which it was originally created. When, however, energy has given place to indifference, and temperance and justice to passion and arrogance, then as the morals change so changes fortune.
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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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The Romans assisted their allies and friends, and acquired friendships by giving rather than receiving kindness.
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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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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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