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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

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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Creator Fate Man Song True
Greedy for the property of others, extravagant with his own
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Himself Own Property
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
He that will be angry for anything will be angry for nothing.
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Angry Deep Emotion Feeling Himself
Everything destroyed is either resolved into the elements from which it came, or else vanishes into not-being. If things are resolved into the elements from which they came, then there will be others: else how did they come into being at all?
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Destroy Element Existence
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
A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
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Defeat Goodness Justice Man
Advise well before you begin, and when you have maturely considered, then act with promptitude.
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Act Advice Beginning Mature
The glory of riches and of beauty is frail and transitory; virtue remains bright and eternal.
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Beautiful Bright Forever Fragile Glory Rich
All who consult on doubtful matters, should be void of hatred, friendship, anger, and pity.
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Angry Doubt Friendship Hate Pity
No man underestimates the wrongs he suffers; many take them more seriously than is right.
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Himself Man Right Serious Suffering Wrong
By union the smallest states thrive. By discord the greatest are destroyed.
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Destroy Greatness Small State Thrive
All persons who are enthusiastic that they should transcend the other animals ought to strive with the utmost effort not to pass through a life of silence, like cattle, which nature has fashioned to be prone and obedient to their stomachs.
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Animal Effort Nature Obedience Person Stomach Transcend
Kings are more prone to mistrust the good than the bad; and they are always afraid of the virtues of others.
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Afraid Bad Goodness Trust Virtue
To desire the same things and to reject the same things, constitutes true friendship.
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Desire Friendship Reject
But few prize honour more than money.
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Honor Money Prize

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