Before you act consider; when you have considered, tis fully time to act.
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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There were few who preferred honor to money.
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The higher your station, the less your liberty.
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Those most moved to tears by every word of a preacher are generally weak and a rascal when the feelings evaporate.
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He that will be angry for anything will be angry for nothing.
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Fortune rules in all things, and advances and depresses things more out of her own will than right and justice.
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The poorest of men are the most useful to those seeking power.
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A good man prefers to suffer rather than overcome injustice with evil.
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Among intellectual pursuits, one of the most useful is the recording of past events.
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Harmony makes small things grow; lack of it makes great things decay.
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It is better to use fair means and fail, than foul and conquer.
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Fame is the shadow of passion standing in the light.
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Just to stir things up seemed a great reward in itself.
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Since we have received everything from the Gods, and it is right to pay the giver some tithe of his gifts, we pay such a tithe of possessions in votive offering, of bodies in gifts of (hair and) adornment, and of life in sacrifices.
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Everything that rises sets, and everything that grows, grows old.
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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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