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Sallust

Kings are more prone to mistrust the good than the bad; and they are always afraid of the virtues of others.
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Afraid Bad Goodness Trust Virtue
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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Fall Finding Prize Virtue Yourself
Deliberate before you begin; but, having carefully done so, execute with vigour.
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Beginning Care Execution Zeal
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
A good man prefers to suffer rather than overcome injustice with evil.
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Evil Goodness Justice Man Preference
We employ the mind to rule, the body to serve.
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Body Employment Mindset Rule Serve
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
Greedy for the property of others, extravagant with his own
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Himself Own Property
Harmony makes small things grow; lack of it makes great things decay.
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Decay Deep Greatness Growth Harmony
Fame is the shadow of passion standing in the light.
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Fame Light Passion Shadow Stand
In battle it is the cowards who run the most risk; bravery is a rampart of defense.
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Battle Brave Coward Defense Risk Run
The very life which we enjoy is short.
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Enjoyment Life One Liner Short
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
For men who had easily endured hardship, danger and difficult uncertainty, leisure and riches, though in some ways desirable, proved burdensome and a source of grief.
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Dangerous Desire Easy Endurance Men Source Way
No grief reaches the dead.
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Death Grief One Liner Reach
Ambition drove many men to become false; to have one thought locked in the breast, another ready on the tongue.
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Ambition Drive Fake Lock Man Ready Thinking

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