He that will be angry for anything will be angry for nothing.
SALLUSTThe 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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It is always easy to begin a war, but very difficult to stop one.
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Everything destroyed is either resolved into the elements from which it came, or else vanishes into not-being. If things are resolved into the elements from which they came, then there will be others: else how did they come into being at all?
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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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To desire the same things and to reject the same things, constitutes true friendship.
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Each man the architect of his own fate.
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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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Ambition drove many men to become false; to have one thought locked in the breast, another ready on the tongue.
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Necessity makes even the timid brave.
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As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.
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We employ the mind to rule, the body to serve.
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The Romans assisted their allies and friends, and acquired friendships by giving rather than receiving kindness.
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Ambition breaks the ties of blood, and forgets the obligations of gratitude.
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The glory of riches and of beauty is frail and transitory; virtue remains bright and eternal.
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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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The fame which is based on wealth or beauty is a frail and fleeting thing; but virtue shines for ages with undiminished lustre.
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