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Kings are more prone to mistrust the good than the bad; and they are always afraid of the virtues of others.

Sallust

Do as much as possible, and talk of yourself as little as possible.
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Hard Work Modesty Possible Talk Yourself
Sovereignty is easily preserved by the very arts by which it was originally created. When, however, energy has given place to indifference, and temperance and justice to passion and arrogance, then as the morals change so changes fortune.
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Arrogance Art Change Creation Easy Fortune Justice Original Place Preserve
For harmony makes small states great, while discord undermines the mightiest empires.
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Empire Greatness Harmony Small State
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
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
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 fame that goes with wealth and beauty is fleeting and fragile; intellectual superiority is a possession glorious and eternal.
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Beautiful Fame Forever Glory Intellectual Possession Wealth
It is better to use fair means and fail, than foul and conquer.
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Better Conquer Failure Right Rule Win
It is always easy to begin a war, but very difficult to stop one.
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Beginning Difficult Easy Oneself Stop
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
A good man prefers to suffer rather than overcome injustice with evil.
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Evil Goodness Justice Man Preference
It is sweet to surve one country by deeds, and it is not absurd to surve her by words.
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Country Herself Madness Sweet Word
Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.
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Decay Fall Life Philosophy Rise
Every bad precedent originated as a justifiable measure.
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Bad Measurement Origin
The glory of ancestors sheds a light around posterity; it allows neither good nor bad qualities to remain in obscurity.
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Ancestor Bad Glory Goodness Light Obscurity Quality
To like and dislike the same things that is indeed true friendship.
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Bond Friendship True

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