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Neither soldiers nor money can defend a king but only friends won by good deeds, merit, and honesty.

Sallust

Among intellectual pursuits, one of the most useful is the recording of past events.
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Event Intellectual Past Pursuit
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
We employ the mind to rule, the body to serve.
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Body Employment Mindset Rule Serve
Enough words, little wisdom.
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Enough Wisdom Word
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
The firmest friendship is based on an identity of likes and dislikes.
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Friendship Identity Nature
The poorest of men are the most useful to those seeking power.
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Man Poor Power Seek Useful
The very life which we enjoy is short.
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Enjoyment Life One Liner Short
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
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
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
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
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
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
Before you act consider; when you have considered, tis fully time to act.
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Act Action Consider Time Yourself
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

Neither soldiers nor money can defend a king but only friends won by good deeds, merit, and honesty.

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