The renown which riches or beauty confer is fleeting and frail mental excellence is a splendid and lasting possession.
SALLUSTFor men who had easily endured hardship, danger and difficult uncertainty, leisure and riches, though in some ways desirable, proved burdensome and a source of grief.
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In victory even the cowardly like to boast, while in adverse times even the brave are discredited.
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The higher your station, the less your liberty.
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Small communities grow great through harmony, great ones fall to pieces through discord.
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The fame that goes with wealth and beauty is fleeting and fragile; intellectual superiority is a possession glorious and eternal.
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A good man prefers to suffer rather than overcome injustice with evil.
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Do as much as possible, and talk of yourself as little as possible.
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Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.
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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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Ambition drove many men to become false; to have one thought locked in the breast, another ready on the tongue.
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For men who had easily endured hardship, danger and difficult uncertainty, leisure and riches, though in some ways desirable, proved burdensome and a source of grief.
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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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All persons who are enthusiastic that they should transcend the other animals ought to strive with the utmost effort not to pass through a life of silence, like cattle, which nature has fashioned to be prone and obedient to their stomachs.
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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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In battle it is the cowards who run the most risk; bravery is a rampart of defense.
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He that will be angry for anything will be angry for nothing.
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