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Ambition drove many men to become false; to have one thought locked in the breast, another ready on the tongue.

Sallust

The Romans assisted their allies and friends, and acquired friendships by giving rather than receiving kindness.
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Assistance Friendship Kindness Receive Roman
He that will be angry for anything will be angry for nothing.
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Angry Deep Emotion Feeling Himself
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
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
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
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
Every bad precedent originated as a justifiable measure.
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Bad Measurement Origin
The renown which riches or beauty confer is fleeting and frail mental excellence is a splendid and lasting possession.
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Beautiful Excellence Mental Possession Rich
Advise well before you begin, and when you have maturely considered, then act with promptitude.
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Act Advice Beginning Mature
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
A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
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Defeat Goodness Justice Man
We employ the mind to rule, the body to serve.
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Body Employment Mindset Rule Serve
Necessity makes even the timid brave.
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Brave Circumstance Coward Necessary
There were few who preferred honor to money.
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Honor Money Preference
Among intellectual pursuits, one of the most useful is the recording of past events.
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Event Intellectual Past Pursuit
It is impossible that there should be so much providence in the last details, and none in the first principles. Then the arts of prophecy and of healing, which are part of the cosmos, come of the good providence of the Gods.
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Cosmos Detail God Healing Impossible Principle

Ambition drove many men to become false; to have one thought locked in the breast, another ready on the tongue.

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