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Not by vows nor by womanish prayers is the help of the gods obtained; success comes through vigilance, energy, wise counsel.

Sallust

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
The glory of riches and of beauty is frail and transitory; virtue remains bright and eternal.
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Beautiful Bright Forever Fragile Glory Rich
We employ the mind to rule, the body to serve.
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Body Employment Mindset Rule Serve
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
It is better to use fair means and fail, than foul and conquer.
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Better Conquer Failure Right Rule Win
Harmony makes small things grow; lack of it makes great things decay.
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Decay Deep Greatness Growth Harmony
Fame is the shadow of passion standing in the light.
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Fame Light Passion Shadow Stand
The soul is the captain and ruler of the life of morals.
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Captain Life Moral Rule Soul
Do as much as possible, and talk of yourself as little as possible.
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Hard Work Modesty Possible Talk Yourself
By union the smallest states thrive. By discord the greatest are destroyed.
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Destroy Greatness Small State Thrive
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 renown which riches or beauty confer is fleeting and frail mental excellence is a splendid and lasting possession.
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Beautiful Excellence Mental Possession Rich
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
He that will be angry for anything will be angry for nothing.
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Angry Deep Emotion Feeling Himself
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
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

Not by vows nor by womanish prayers is the help of the gods obtained; success comes through vigilance, energy, wise counsel.

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