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The firmest friendship is based on an identity of likes and dislikes.

Sallust

Among intellectual pursuits, one of the most useful is the recording of past events.
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Event Intellectual Past Pursuit
Harmony makes small things grow; lack of it makes great things decay.
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Decay Deep Greatness Growth Harmony
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
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
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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Arrogance Art Change Creation Easy Fortune Justice Original Place Preserve
A good man prefers to suffer rather than overcome injustice with evil.
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Evil Goodness Justice Man Preference
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
It is a law of human nature that in victory even the coward may boast of his prowess, while defeat injures the reputation even of the brave.
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Brave Defeat Himself Human Law Nature Reputation Victory
A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
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Defeat Goodness Justice Man
One can ever assume to be what he is not, and to conceal what he is.
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Assume Conceal Himself
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
Enough words, little wisdom.
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Enough Wisdom Word
Just to stir things up seemed a great reward in itself.
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Greatness Reward
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
Do as much as possible, and talk of yourself as little as possible.
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Hard Work Modesty Possible Talk Yourself

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