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Advise well before you begin, and when you have maturely considered, then act with promptitude.

Sallust

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
To have the same desires and the same aversion is assuredly a firm bond of friendship.
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Bond Desire Friendship
Small communities grow great through harmony, great ones fall to pieces through discord.
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Community Discord Greatness Harmony Oneself Pieces Small
To someone seeking power, the poorest man is the most useful.
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Deep Man Poor Power Seek
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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Body Cosmos Down Imitation Move On Soul Water
To desire the same things and to reject the same things, constitutes true friendship.
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Desire Friendship Reject
They envy the distinction I have won; let them therefore, envy my toils, my honesty, and the methods by which I gained it.
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Jealous Method Myself Win
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
Each man the architect of his own fate.
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Architect Fate Himself Man
The poorest of men are the most useful to those seeking power.
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Man Poor Power Seek Useful
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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Action Enjoyment Illustration Live Myself Name Opinion Pursuit True
In victory even the cowardly like to boast, while in adverse times even the brave are discredited.
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Brave Coward Credit Time Victory
By union the smallest states thrive. By discord the greatest are destroyed.
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Destroy Greatness Small State Thrive
The very life which we enjoy is short.
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Enjoyment Life One Liner Short
We employ the mind to rule, the body to serve.
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Body Employment Mindset Rule Serve
Prosperity tries the souls even of the wise.
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Prosperity Soul Try Wisdom

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