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By union the smallest states thrive. By discord the greatest are destroyed.

Sallust

Poor Britons, there is some good in them after all – they produced an oyster.
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Goodness Pearl Production
To hope for safety in flight, when you have turned away from the enemy the arms by which the body is defended, is indeed madness. In battle those who are most afraid are always in most danger; but courage is equivalent to rampart.
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Afraid Body Courage Defeat Enemy Equivalent Hope Madness Safety
All men who would surpass the other animals should do their best not to pass through life silently like the beasts whom nature made prone, obedient to their bellies.
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Animal Best Life Man Obedience Stomach Through
The higher your station, the less your liberty.
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High Liberty Station Yourself
All who consult on doubtful matters, should be void of hatred, friendship, anger, and pity.
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Angry Doubt Friendship Hate Pity
To desire the same things and to reject the same things, constitutes true friendship.
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Desire Friendship Reject
It is always easy enough to take up arms, but very difficult to lay them down; the commencement and the termination of war are not necessarily in the same hands; even a coward may begin, but the end comes only when the victors are willing.
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Coward Difficult Easy Enough Hands Necessary War Willing
Among intellectual pursuits, one of the most useful is the recording of past events.
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Event Intellectual Past Pursuit
In my opinion it is less shameful for a king to be overcome by force of arms than by bribery.
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Arms Bribe Force Opinion Shame
Harmony makes small things grow; lack of it makes great things decay.
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Decay Deep Greatness Growth Harmony
He that will be angry for anything will be angry for nothing.
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Angry Deep Emotion Feeling Himself
A good man prefers to suffer rather than overcome injustice with evil.
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Evil Goodness Justice Man Preference
No man underestimates the wrongs he suffers; many take them more seriously than is right.
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Himself Man Right Serious Suffering Wrong
One can ever assume to be what he is not, and to conceal what he is.
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Assume Conceal Himself
Fortune rules in all things, and advances and depresses things more out of her own will than right and justice.
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Depression Fortune Justice Rule Willing
Since we have received everything from the Gods, and it is right to pay the giver some tithe of his gifts, we pay such a tithe of possessions in votive offering, of bodies in gifts of (hair and) adornment, and of life in sacrifices.
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Body Gift God Pay Possession Received Sacrifice

By union the smallest states thrive. By discord the greatest are destroyed.

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