All who consult on doubtful matters, should be void of hatred, friendship, anger, and pity.
SALLUSTThe fame that goes with wealth and beauty is fleeting and fragile; intellectual superiority is a possession glorious and eternal.
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Small communities grow great through harmony, great ones fall to pieces through discord.
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The fame that goes with wealth and beauty is fleeting and fragile; intellectual superiority is a possession glorious and eternal.
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When the prizes fall to the lot of the wicked, you will not find many who are virtuous for virtue’s sake.
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But assuredly Fortune rules in all things; she raised to eminence or buries in oblivion everything from caprice rather than from well-regulated principle.
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For harmony makes small states great, while discord undermines the mightiest empires.
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The very life which we enjoy is short.
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To someone seeking power, the poorest man is the most useful.
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Prosperity tries the souls even of the wise.
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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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It is always easy to begin a war, but very difficult to stop one.
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The Romans assisted their allies and friends, and acquired friendships by giving rather than receiving kindness.
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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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Harmony makes small things grow; lack of it makes great things decay.
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Enough words, little wisdom.
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Deliberate before you begin; but, having carefully done so, execute with vigour.
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