Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.
SALLUSTIt 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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But at power or wealth, for the sake of which wars, and all kinds of strife, arise among mankind, we do not aim; we desire only our liberty, which no honorable man relinquishes but with his life.
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Necessity makes even the timid brave.
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No grief reaches the dead.
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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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The higher your station, the less your liberty.
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In battle it is the cowards who run the most risk; bravery is a rampart of defense.
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No man underestimates the wrongs he suffers; many take them more seriously than is right.
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Fortune rules in all things, and advances and depresses things more out of her own will than right and justice.
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For harmony makes small states great, while discord undermines the mightiest empires.
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Advise well before you begin, and when you have maturely considered, then act with promptitude.
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The renown which riches or beauty confer is fleeting and frail mental excellence is a splendid and lasting possession.
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Every bad precedent originated as a justifiable measure.
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Poor Britons, there is some good in them after all – they produced an oyster.
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In victory even the cowardly like to boast, while in adverse times even the brave are discredited.
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Among intellectual pursuits, one of the most useful is the recording of past events.
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