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No mortal man has ever served at the same time his passions and his best interests.

Sallust

It is always easy to begin a war, but very difficult to stop one.
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Beginning Difficult Easy Oneself Stop
In my own case, who have spent my whole life in the practice of virtue, right conduct from habitual has become natural.
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Character Life Natural Practice Right Virtue
To desire the same things and to reject the same things, constitutes true friendship.
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Desire Friendship Reject
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
When the prizes fall to the lot of the wicked, you will not find many who are virtuous for virtue’s sake.
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Fall Finding Prize Virtue Yourself
Get good counsel before you begin; and when you have decided, act promptly.
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Act Counsel Decision Goodness Prompt
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
Neither the army nor the treasury, but friends, are the true supports of the throne; for friends cannot be collected by force of arms, nor purchased with money; they are the offspring of kindness and sincerity.
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Army Collection Force Kindness Kingdom Money Sincere Support Treasure True
The higher your station, the less your liberty.
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High Liberty Station Yourself
The glory of riches and of beauty is frail and transitory; virtue remains bright and eternal.
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Beautiful Bright Forever Fragile Glory Rich
There were few who preferred honor to money.
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Honor Money Preference
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
A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
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Defeat Goodness Justice Man
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
The firmest friendship is based on an identity of likes and dislikes.
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Friendship Identity Nature
It is always easy enough to take up arms, but very difficult to lay them down; the commencement and the termination of war are not necessarily in the same hands; even a coward may begin, but the end comes only when the victors are willing.
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Coward Difficult Easy Enough Hands Necessary War Willing

No mortal man has ever served at the same time his passions and his best interests.

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