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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.

Sallust

No mortal man has ever served at the same time his passions and his best interests.
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Best Interest Man Mortal Passion Serve Time
The soul is the captain and ruler of the life of morals.
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Captain Life Moral Rule Soul
Advise well before you begin, and when you have maturely considered, then act with promptitude.
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Act Advice Beginning Mature
Every bad precedent originated as a justifiable measure.
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Bad Measurement Origin
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
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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Character Life Natural Practice Right Virtue
Before you act consider; when you have considered, tis fully time to act.
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Act Action Consider Time Yourself
Ambition breaks the ties of blood, and forgets the obligations of gratitude.
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Ambition Blood Bond Break Forget Gratitude Obligation
A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
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Defeat Goodness Justice Man
Each man the architect of his own fate.
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Architect Fate Himself Man
No grief reaches the dead.
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Death Grief One Liner Reach
When the prizes fall to the lot of the wicked, you will not find many who are virtuous for virtue’s sake.
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Fall Finding Prize Virtue Yourself
Most honorable are services rendered to the State; even if they do not go beyond words, they are not to be despised.
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Beyond Despise Honor Service State Word
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
In my opinion it is less shameful for a king to be overcome by force of arms than by bribery.
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Arms Bribe Force Opinion Shame
He that will be angry for anything will be angry for nothing.
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Angry Deep Emotion Feeling Himself

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