By the wicked the good conduct of others is always dreaded.
SALLUSTThe Romans assisted their allies and friends, and acquired friendships by giving rather than receiving kindness.
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No grief reaches the dead.
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Poor Britons, there is some good in them after all – they produced an oyster.
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Every bad precedent originated as a justifiable measure.
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The soul is the captain and ruler of the life of morals.
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To like and dislike the same things that is indeed true friendship.
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The very life which we enjoy is short.
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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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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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It is better to use fair means and fail, than foul and conquer.
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Just to stir things up seemed a great reward in itself.
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The poorest of men are the most useful to those seeking power.
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In my opinion, he only may be truly said to live and enjoy his being who is engaged in some laudable pursuit, and acquires a name by some illustrious action, or useful art.
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The glory of wealth and of beauty is fleeting and frail; virtue is illustrious and everlasting.
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He that will be angry for anything will be angry for nothing.
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A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
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