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The glory of ancestors sheds a light around posterity; it allows neither good nor bad qualities to remain in obscurity.

Sallust

Necessity makes even the timid brave.
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Brave Circumstance Coward Necessary
Before you act consider; when you have considered, tis fully time to act.
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Act Action Consider Time Yourself
The higher your station, the less your liberty.
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High Liberty Station Yourself
The glory of ancestors sheds a light around posterity; it allows neither good nor bad qualities to remain in obscurity.
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Ancestor Bad Glory Goodness Light Obscurity Quality
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
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
It is always easy to begin a war, but very difficult to stop one.
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Beginning Difficult Easy Oneself Stop
Ambition breaks the ties of blood, and forgets the obligations of gratitude.
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Ambition Blood Bond Break Forget Gratitude Obligation
But few prize honour more than money.
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Honor Money Prize
Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master.
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Desire Liberty Master Men
Everything that rises sets, and everything that grows, grows old.
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Growth Old Rise
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
It is impossible that there should be so much providence in the last details, and none in the first principles. Then the arts of prophecy and of healing, which are part of the cosmos, come of the good providence of the Gods.
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Cosmos Detail God Healing Impossible Principle
We employ the mind to rule, the body to serve.
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Body Employment Mindset Rule Serve
To hope for safety in flight, when you have turned away from the enemy the arms by which the body is defended, is indeed madness. In battle those who are most afraid are always in most danger; but courage is equivalent to rampart.
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Afraid Body Courage Defeat Enemy Equivalent Hope Madness Safety
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

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