Ambition breaks the ties of blood, and forgets the obligations of gratitude.
SALLUSTThe higher your station, the less your liberty.
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Sovereignty is easily preserved by the very arts by which it was originally created. When, however, energy has given place to indifference, and temperance and justice to passion and arrogance, then as the morals change so changes fortune.
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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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No man underestimates the wrongs he suffers; many take them more seriously than is right.
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For harmony makes small states great, while discord undermines the mightiest empires.
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To like and dislike the same things that is indeed true friendship.
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He that will be angry for anything will be angry for nothing.
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By the wicked the good conduct of others is always dreaded.
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By union the smallest states thrive. By discord the greatest are destroyed.
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No grief reaches the dead.
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It is always easy to begin a war, but very difficult to stop one.
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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 very life which we enjoy is short.
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The higher your station, the less your liberty.
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Just to stir things up seemed a great reward in itself.
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Small communities grow great through harmony, great ones fall to pieces through discord.
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