To someone seeking power, the poorest man is the most useful.
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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For harmony makes small states great, while discord undermines the mightiest empires.
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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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In my own case, who have spent my whole life in the practice of virtue, right conduct from habitual has become natural.
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It is better to use fair means and fail, than foul and conquer.
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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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Before you act consider; when you have considered, tis fully time to act.
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It is a law of human nature that in victory even the coward may boast of his prowess, while defeat injures the reputation even of the brave.
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Each man the architect of his own fate.
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To desire the same things and to reject the same things, constitutes true friendship.
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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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But at power or wealth, for the sake of which wars, and all kinds of strife, arise among mankind, we do not aim; we desire only our liberty, which no honorable man relinquishes but with his life.
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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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The fame which is based on wealth or beauty is a frail and fleeting thing; but virtue shines for ages with undiminished lustre.
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There were few who preferred honor to money.
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Small endeavours obtain strength by unity of action: the most powerful are broken down by discord.
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