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The Romans assisted their allies and friends, and acquired friendships by giving rather than receiving kindness.

Sallust

When the prizes fall to the lot of the wicked, you will not find many who are virtuous for virtue’s sake.
SALLUST

Fall Finding Prize Virtue Yourself
Get good counsel before you begin; and when you have decided, act promptly.
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Act Counsel Decision Goodness Prompt
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
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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Animal Best Life Man Obedience Stomach Through
The firmest friendship is based on an identity of likes and dislikes.
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Friendship Identity Nature
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
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
For harmony makes small states great, while discord undermines the mightiest empires.
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Empire Greatness Harmony Small State
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
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
Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.
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Decay Fall Life Philosophy Rise
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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Brave Defeat Himself Human Law Nature Reputation Victory
To like and dislike the same things that is indeed true friendship.
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Bond Friendship True
Advise well before you begin, and when you have maturely considered, then act with promptitude.
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Act Advice Beginning Mature
We employ the mind to rule, the body to serve.
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Body Employment Mindset Rule Serve
It is better to use fair means and fail, than foul and conquer.
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Better Conquer Failure Right Rule Win

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