Greedy for the property of others, extravagant with his own
SALLUSTIn 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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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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As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.
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It is impossible that there should be so much providence in the last details, and none in the first principles. Then the arts of prophecy and of healing, which are part of the cosmos, come of the good providence of the Gods.
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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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Fortune rules in all things, and advances and depresses things more out of her own will than right and justice.
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Deliberate before you begin; but, having carefully done so, execute with vigour.
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He that will be angry for anything will be angry for nothing.
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Ambition breaks the ties of blood, and forgets the obligations of gratitude.
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Harmony makes small things grow; lack of it makes great things decay.
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Ambition drove many men to become false; to have one thought locked in the breast, another ready on the tongue.
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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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It is always easy enough to take up arms, but very difficult to lay them down; the commencement and the termination of war are not necessarily in the same hands; even a coward may begin, but the end comes only when the victors are willing.
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To have the same desires and the same aversion is assuredly a firm bond of friendship.
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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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It is always easy to begin a war, but very difficult to stop one.
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