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Prosperity tries the souls even of the wise.

Sallust

Of the bodies in the cosmos, some imitate mind and move in orbits; some imitate soul and move in a straight line, fire and air upward, earth and water downward.
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Body Cosmos Down Imitation Move On Soul Water
It is better to use fair means and fail, than foul and conquer.
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Better Conquer Failure Right Rule Win
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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Coward Difficult Easy Enough Hands Necessary War Willing
The firmest friendship is based on an identity of likes and dislikes.
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Friendship Identity Nature
The renown which riches or beauty confer is fleeting and frail mental excellence is a splendid and lasting possession.
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Beautiful Excellence Mental Possession Rich
Neither soldiers nor money can defend a king but only friends won by good deeds, merit, and honesty.
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Friendship Honesty Money Soldier
Each man the architect of his own fate.
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Architect Fate Himself Man
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
No grief reaches the dead.
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Death Grief One Liner Reach
Prosperity tries the souls even of the wise.
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Prosperity Soul Try Wisdom
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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Action Enjoyment Illustration Live Myself Name Opinion Pursuit True
We employ the mind to rule, the body to serve.
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Body Employment Mindset Rule Serve
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
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
Just to stir things up seemed a great reward in itself.
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Greatness Reward
Harmony makes small things grow; lack of it makes great things decay.
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Decay Deep Greatness Growth Harmony
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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Absence Darkness Existence God Goodness Light Positive
Fortune rules in all things, and advances and depresses things more out of her own will than right and justice.
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Depression Fortune Justice Rule Willing
To desire the same things and to reject the same things, constitutes true friendship.
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Desire Friendship Reject
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
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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Beginning Blessing Decay Fortune Health
Advise well before you begin, and when you have maturely considered, then act with promptitude.
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Act Advice Beginning Mature
For harmony makes small states great, while discord undermines the mightiest empires.
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Empire Greatness Harmony Small State
One can ever assume to be what he is not, and to conceal what he is.
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Assume Conceal Himself
They envy the distinction I have won; let them therefore, envy my toils, my honesty, and the methods by which I gained it.
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Jealous Method Myself Win
Necessity makes even the timid brave.
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Brave Circumstance Coward Necessary
The soul is the captain and ruler of the life of morals.
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Captain Life Moral Rule Soul

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