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Those most moved to tears by every word of a preacher are generally weak and a rascal when the feelings evaporate.

Sallust

Necessity makes even the timid brave.
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Brave Circumstance Coward Necessary
In victory even the cowardly like to boast, while in adverse times even the brave are discredited.
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Brave Coward Credit Time Victory
Harmony makes small things grow; lack of it makes great things decay.
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Decay Deep Greatness Growth Harmony
Enough words, little wisdom.
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Enough Wisdom Word
For harmony makes small states great, while discord undermines the mightiest empires.
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Empire Greatness Harmony Small State
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
To someone seeking power, the poorest man is the most useful.
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Deep Man Poor Power Seek
Do as much as possible, and talk of yourself as little as possible.
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Hard Work Modesty Possible Talk Yourself
The Gods being good and making all things, there is no positive evil, it only comes by absence of good; just as darkness itself does not exist, but only comes about by absence of light.
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Absence Darkness Existence God Goodness Light Positive
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
Of the cosmic Gods some make the world be, others animate it, others harmonize it, consisting as it does of different elements; the fourth class keep it when harmonized.
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Animate Consist Cosmos God Harmony
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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Desire Himself Kind Liberty Life Man Power War Wealth
Small communities grow great through harmony, great ones fall to pieces through discord.
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Community Discord Greatness Harmony Oneself Pieces Small
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
All persons who are enthusiastic that they should transcend the other animals ought to strive with the utmost effort not to pass through a life of silence, like cattle, which nature has fashioned to be prone and obedient to their stomachs.
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Animal Effort Nature Obedience Person Stomach Transcend
To have the same desires and the same aversion is assuredly a firm bond of friendship.
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Bond Desire Friendship

Those most moved to tears by every word of a preacher are generally weak and a rascal when the feelings evaporate.

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