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Get good counsel before you begin; and when you have decided, act promptly.

Sallust

Everything destroyed is either resolved into the elements from which it came, or else vanishes into not-being. If things are resolved into the elements from which they came, then there will be others: else how did they come into being at all?
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Destroy Element Existence
Just to stir things up seemed a great reward in itself.
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Greatness Reward
But few prize honour more than money.
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Honor Money Prize
The Gods being good and making all things, there is no positive evil, it only comes by absence of good; just as darkness itself does not exist, but only comes about by absence of light.
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Absence Darkness Existence God Goodness Light Positive
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
Everything that rises sets, and everything that grows, grows old.
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Growth Old Rise
We employ the mind to rule, the body to serve.
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Body Employment Mindset Rule Serve
Deliberate before you begin; but, having carefully done so, execute with vigour.
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Beginning Care Execution Zeal
To like and dislike the same things that is indeed true friendship.
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Bond Friendship True
A good man prefers to suffer rather than overcome injustice with evil.
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Evil Goodness Justice Man Preference
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
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
But the case has proved that to be true which Appius says in his songs, that each man is the maker of his own fate.
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Creator Fate Man Song True
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
Before you act consider; when you have considered, tis fully time to act.
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Act Action Consider Time Yourself
The soul is the captain and ruler of the life of morals.
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Captain Life Moral Rule Soul

Get good counsel before you begin; and when you have decided, act promptly.

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