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Small endeavours obtain strength by unity of action: the most powerful are broken down by discord.

Sallust

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
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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Arrogance Art Change Creation Easy Fortune Justice Original Place Preserve
Small communities grow great through harmony, great ones fall to pieces through discord.
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Community Discord Greatness Harmony Oneself Pieces Small
Deliberate before you begin; but, having carefully done so, execute with vigour.
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Beginning Care Execution Zeal
Just to stir things up seemed a great reward in itself.
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Greatness Reward
No man underestimates the wrongs he suffers; many take them more seriously than is right.
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Himself Man Right Serious Suffering Wrong
Advise well before you begin, and when you have maturely considered, then act with promptitude.
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Act Advice Beginning Mature
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
A good man prefers to suffer rather than overcome injustice with evil.
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Evil Goodness Justice Man Preference
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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Advice Ancestor Help Light Powerful
By union the smallest states thrive. By discord the greatest are destroyed.
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Destroy Greatness Small State Thrive
Fortune rules in all things, and advances and depresses things more out of her own will than right and justice.
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Depression Fortune Justice Rule Willing
One can ever assume to be what he is not, and to conceal what he is.
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Assume Conceal Himself
Neither the army nor the treasury, but friends, are the true supports of the throne; for friends cannot be collected by force of arms, nor purchased with money; they are the offspring of kindness and sincerity.
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Army Collection Force Kindness Kingdom Money Sincere Support Treasure True
Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master.
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Desire Liberty Master Men
The higher your station, the less your liberty.
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High Liberty Station Yourself

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