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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.

Sallust

Not by vows nor by womanish prayers is the help of the gods obtained; success comes through vigilance, energy, wise counsel.
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Counsel Energy God Help Prayer Promise Success Vow Wisdom
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
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
It is always easy to begin a war, but very difficult to stop one.
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Beginning Difficult Easy Oneself Stop
Most honorable are services rendered to the State; even if they do not go beyond words, they are not to be despised.
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Beyond Despise Honor Service State Word
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
He that will be angry for anything will be angry for nothing.
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Angry Deep Emotion Feeling Himself
Small communities grow great through harmony, great ones fall to pieces through discord.
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Community Discord Greatness Harmony Oneself Pieces Small
They envy the distinction I have won; let them therefore, envy my toils, my honesty, and the methods by which I gained it.
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Jealous Method Myself Win
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
No grief reaches the dead.
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Death Grief One Liner Reach
Those most moved to tears by every word of a preacher are generally weak and a rascal when the feelings evaporate.
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Evaporate Feeling General Move Tears Weakness Word
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
But few prize honour more than money.
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Honor Money Prize
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
All those who offer an opinion on any doubtful point should first clear their minds of every sentiment of dislike, friendship, anger or pity.
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Angry Doubt Friendship Offering Opinion

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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