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It is always easy to begin a war, but very difficult to stop one.

Sallust

It is impossible that there should be so much providence in the last details, and none in the first principles. Then the arts of prophecy and of healing, which are part of the cosmos, come of the good providence of the Gods.
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Cosmos Detail God Healing Impossible Principle
No grief reaches the dead.
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Death Grief One Liner Reach
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
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
But few prize honour more than money.
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Honor Money Prize
By union the smallest states thrive. By discord the greatest are destroyed.
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Destroy Greatness Small State Thrive
Most honorable are services rendered to the State; even if they do not go beyond words, they are not to be despised.
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Beyond Despise Honor Service State Word
Those most moved to tears by every word of a preacher are generally weak and a rascal when the feelings evaporate.
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Evaporate Feeling General Move Tears Weakness Word
In my own case, who have spent my whole life in the practice of virtue, right conduct from habitual has become natural.
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Character Life Natural Practice Right Virtue
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
It is always easy to begin a war, but very difficult to stop one.
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Beginning Difficult Easy Oneself Stop
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
By the wicked the good conduct of others is always dreaded.
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Dread Goodness Wicked
Deliberate before you begin; but, having carefully done so, execute with vigour.
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Beginning Care Execution Zeal
One can ever assume to be what he is not, and to conceal what he is.
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Assume Conceal Himself
Everything that rises sets, and everything that grows, grows old.
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Growth Old Rise

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