Neither soldiers nor money can defend a king but only friends won by good deeds, merit, and honesty.
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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The Gods being good and making all things, there is no positive evil, it only comes by absence of good; just as darkness itself does not exist, but only comes about by absence of light.
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The glory of wealth and of beauty is fleeting and frail; virtue is illustrious and everlasting.
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Distinguished ancestors shed a powerful light on their descendants, and forbid the concealment either of their merits or of their demerits.
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Get good counsel before you begin; and when you have decided, act promptly.
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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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A good man prefers to suffer rather than overcome injustice with evil.
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In my opinion it is less shameful for a king to be overcome by force of arms than by bribery.
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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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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 few prize honour more than money.
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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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The higher your station, the less your liberty.
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Of the cosmic Gods some make the world be, others animate it, others harmonize it, consisting as it does of different elements; the fourth class keep it when harmonized.
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Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.
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The glory of ancestors sheds a light around posterity; it allows neither good nor bad qualities to remain in obscurity.
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