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To someone seeking power, the poorest man is the most useful.

Sallust

Advise well before you begin, and when you have maturely considered, then act with promptitude.
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Act Advice Beginning Mature
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
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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Beginning Blessing Decay Fortune Health
Each man the architect of his own fate.
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Architect Fate Himself Man
A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
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Defeat Goodness Justice Man
Distinguished ancestors shed a powerful light on their descendants, and forbid the concealment either of their merits or of their demerits.
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Advice Ancestor Help Light Powerful
Just to stir things up seemed a great reward in itself.
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Greatness Reward
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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Assurance Bury Fate Fortune Principle Raise Rule
It is always easy to begin a war, but very difficult to stop one.
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Beginning Difficult Easy Oneself Stop
No mortal man has ever served at the same time his passions and his best interests.
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Best Interest Man Mortal Passion Serve Time
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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Animate Consist Cosmos God Harmony
Among intellectual pursuits, one of the most useful is the recording of past events.
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Event Intellectual Past Pursuit
Greedy for the property of others, extravagant with his own
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Himself Own Property
Small endeavours obtain strength by unity of action: the most powerful are broken down by discord.
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Action Break Discord Small Strength Unity
To desire the same things and to reject the same things, constitutes true friendship.
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Desire Friendship Reject
Harmony makes small things grow; lack of it makes great things decay.
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Decay Deep Greatness Growth Harmony

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