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

Sallust

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
There were few who preferred honor to money.
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Honor Money Preference
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
Ambition breaks the ties of blood, and forgets the obligations of gratitude.
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Ambition Blood Bond Break Forget Gratitude Obligation
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 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
The firmest friendship is based on an identity of likes and dislikes.
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Friendship Identity Nature
Before you act consider; when you have considered, tis fully time to act.
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Act Action Consider Time Yourself
One can ever assume to be what he is not, and to conceal what he is.
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Assume Conceal Himself
Among intellectual pursuits, one of the most useful is the recording of past events.
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Event Intellectual Past Pursuit
No man underestimates the wrongs he suffers; many take them more seriously than is right.
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Himself Man Right Serious Suffering Wrong
He that will be angry for anything will be angry for nothing.
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Angry Deep Emotion Feeling Himself
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
To have the same desires and the same aversion is assuredly a firm bond of friendship.
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Bond Desire Friendship
Everything that rises sets, and everything that grows, grows old.
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Growth Old Rise
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

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