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

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
To have the same desires and the same aversion is assuredly a firm bond of friendship.
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Bond Desire Friendship
Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.
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Decay Fall Life Philosophy Rise
Deliberate before you begin; but, having carefully done so, execute with vigour.
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Beginning Care Execution Zeal
The glory of ancestors sheds a light around posterity; it allows neither good nor bad qualities to remain in obscurity.
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Ancestor Bad Glory Goodness Light Obscurity Quality
By union the smallest states thrive. By discord the greatest are destroyed.
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Destroy Greatness Small State Thrive
The soul is the captain and ruler of the life of morals.
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Captain Life Moral Rule Soul
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
Do as much as possible, and talk of yourself as little as possible.
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Hard Work Modesty Possible Talk Yourself
Each man the architect of his own fate.
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Architect Fate Himself Man
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
The very life which we enjoy is short.
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Enjoyment Life One Liner Short
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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Counsel Energy God Help Prayer Promise Success Vow Wisdom
He that will be angry for anything will be angry for nothing.
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Angry Deep Emotion Feeling Himself
To desire the same things and to reject the same things, constitutes true friendship.
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Desire Friendship Reject
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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Dangerous Glory Man Mindset Terror

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