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In my opinion, he only may be truly said to live and enjoy his being who is engaged in some laudable pursuit, and acquires a name by some illustrious action, or useful art.

Sallust

Every bad precedent originated as a justifiable measure.
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Bad Measurement Origin
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
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
Everything destroyed is either resolved into the elements from which it came, or else vanishes into not-being. If things are resolved into the elements from which they came, then there will be others: else how did they come into being at all?
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Destroy Element Existence
Do as much as possible, and talk of yourself as little as possible.
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Hard Work Modesty Possible Talk Yourself
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
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
He that will be angry for anything will be angry for nothing.
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Angry Deep Emotion Feeling Himself
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
Small communities grow great through harmony, great ones fall to pieces through discord.
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Community Discord Greatness Harmony Oneself Pieces Small
The glory of wealth and of beauty is fleeting and frail; virtue is illustrious and everlasting.
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Beautiful Glory Illustration Virtue Wealth
Fortune rules in all things, and advances and depresses things more out of her own will than right and justice.
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Depression Fortune Justice Rule Willing
It is sweet to surve one country by deeds, and it is not absurd to surve her by words.
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Country Herself Madness Sweet Word
There were few who preferred honor to money.
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Honor Money Preference
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
To like and dislike the same things that is indeed true friendship.
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Bond Friendship True
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
Poor Britons, there is some good in them after all – they produced an oyster.
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Goodness Pearl Production
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
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
To have the same desires and the same aversion is assuredly a firm bond of friendship.
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Bond Desire Friendship
Neither soldiers nor money can defend a king but only friends won by good deeds, merit, and honesty.
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Friendship Honesty Money Soldier
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
All who consult on doubtful matters, should be void of hatred, friendship, anger, and pity.
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Angry Doubt Friendship Hate Pity
For men who had easily endured hardship, danger and difficult uncertainty, leisure and riches, though in some ways desirable, proved burdensome and a source of grief.
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Dangerous Desire Easy Endurance Men Source Way
To desire the same things and to reject the same things, constitutes true friendship.
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Desire Friendship Reject
The higher your station, the less your liberty.
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High Liberty Station Yourself

In my opinion, he only may be truly said to live and enjoy his being who is engaged in some laudable pursuit, and acquires a name by some illustrious action, or useful art.

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In my opinion, he only may be truly said to live and enjoy his being who is engaged in some laudable pursuit, and acquires a name by some illustrious action, or useful art.

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