The firmest friendship is based on an identity of likes and dislikes.
SALLUSTBy the wicked the good conduct of others is always dreaded.
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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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The man who is roused neither by glory nor by danger it is in vain to exhort; terror closes the ears of the mind.
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As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.
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The soul is the captain and ruler of the life of morals.
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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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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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Neither the army nor the treasury, but friends, are the true supports of the throne; for friends cannot be collected by force of arms, nor purchased with money; they are the offspring of kindness and sincerity.
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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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Fortune rules in all things, and advances and depresses things more out of her own will than right and justice.
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The renown which riches or beauty confer is fleeting and frail mental excellence is a splendid and lasting possession.
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It is better to use fair means and fail, than foul and conquer.
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Deliberate before you begin; but, having carefully done so, execute with vigour.
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The very life which we enjoy is short.
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Small endeavours obtain strength by unity of action: the most powerful are broken down by discord.
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Of the bodies in the cosmos, some imitate mind and move in orbits; some imitate soul and move in a straight line, fire and air upward, earth and water downward.
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