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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?

Sallust

Prosperity tries the souls even of the wise.
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Prosperity Soul Try Wisdom
One can ever assume to be what he is not, and to conceal what he is.
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Assume Conceal Himself
By the wicked the good conduct of others is always dreaded.
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Dread Goodness Wicked
Small communities grow great through harmony, great ones fall to pieces through discord.
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Community Discord Greatness Harmony Oneself Pieces Small
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
Enough words, little wisdom.
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Enough Wisdom Word
The fame that goes with wealth and beauty is fleeting and fragile; intellectual superiority is a possession glorious and eternal.
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Beautiful Fame Forever Glory Intellectual Possession Wealth
No grief reaches the dead.
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Death Grief One Liner Reach
In victory even the cowardly like to boast, while in adverse times even the brave are discredited.
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Brave Coward Credit Time Victory
The glory of ancestors sheds a light around posterity; it allows neither good nor bad qualities to remain in obscurity.
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Ancestor Bad Glory Goodness Light Obscurity Quality
Necessity makes even the timid brave.
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Brave Circumstance Coward Necessary
A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
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Defeat Goodness Justice Man
The fame which is based on wealth or beauty is a frail and fleeting thing; but virtue shines for ages with undiminished lustre.
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Age Fame Luster Virtual Wealth
Distinguished ancestors shed a powerful light on their descendants, and forbid the concealment either of their merits or of their demerits.
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Advice Ancestor Help Light Powerful
It is better to use fair means and fail, than foul and conquer.
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Better Conquer Failure Right Rule Win
Each man the architect of his own fate.
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Architect Fate Himself Man

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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