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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

To like and dislike the same things that is indeed true friendship.
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Bond Friendship True
Advise well before you begin, and when you have maturely considered, then act with promptitude.
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Act Advice Beginning Mature
The very life which we enjoy is short.
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Enjoyment Life One Liner Short
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
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
Among intellectual pursuits, one of the most useful is the recording of past events.
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Event Intellectual Past Pursuit
To desire the same things and to reject the same things, constitutes true friendship.
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Desire Friendship Reject
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
In battle it is the cowards who run the most risk; bravery is a rampart of defense.
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Battle Brave Coward Defense Risk Run
Necessity makes even the timid brave.
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Brave Circumstance Coward Necessary
The higher your station, the less your liberty.
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High Liberty Station Yourself
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
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
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
Prosperity tries the souls even of the wise.
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Prosperity Soul Try Wisdom

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