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Fortune rules in all things, and advances and depresses things more out of her own will than right and justice.

Sallust

Before you act consider; when you have considered, tis fully time to act.
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Act Action Consider Time Yourself
One can ever assume to be what he is not, and to conceal what he is.
SALLUST

Assume Conceal Himself
Of the cosmic Gods some make the world be, others animate it, others harmonize it, consisting as it does of different elements; the fourth class keep it when harmonized.
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Animate Consist Cosmos God Harmony
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
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
It is sweet to surve one country by deeds, and it is not absurd to surve her by words.
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Country Herself Madness Sweet Word
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
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
He that will be angry for anything will be angry for nothing.
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Angry Deep Emotion Feeling Himself
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
Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master.
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Desire Liberty Master Men
The higher your station, the less your liberty.
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High Liberty Station Yourself
We employ the mind to rule, the body to serve.
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Body Employment Mindset Rule Serve
But few prize honour more than money.
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Honor Money Prize
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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Desire Himself Kind Liberty Life Man Power War Wealth
Since we have received everything from the Gods, and it is right to pay the giver some tithe of his gifts, we pay such a tithe of possessions in votive offering, of bodies in gifts of (hair and) adornment, and of life in sacrifices.
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Body Gift God Pay Possession Received Sacrifice

Fortune rules in all things, and advances and depresses things more out of her own will than right and justice.

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