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We employ the mind to rule, the body to serve.

Sallust

Since we have received everything from the Gods, and it is right to pay the giver some tithe of his gifts, we pay such a tithe of possessions in votive offering, of bodies in gifts of (hair and) adornment, and of life in sacrifices.
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Body Gift God Pay Possession Received Sacrifice
Ambition drove many men to become false; to have one thought locked in the breast, another ready on the tongue.
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Ambition Drive Fake Lock Man Ready Thinking
Small communities grow great through harmony, great ones fall to pieces through discord.
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Community Discord Greatness Harmony Oneself Pieces Small
Poor Britons, there is some good in them after all – they produced an oyster.
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Goodness Pearl Production
By the wicked the good conduct of others is always dreaded.
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Dread Goodness Wicked
Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master.
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Desire Liberty Master Men
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
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
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
No grief reaches the dead.
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Death Grief One Liner Reach
Among intellectual pursuits, one of the most useful is the recording of past events.
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Event Intellectual Past Pursuit
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
By union the smallest states thrive. By discord the greatest are destroyed.
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Destroy Greatness Small State Thrive
To someone seeking power, the poorest man is the most useful.
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Deep Man Poor Power Seek
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
Greedy for the property of others, extravagant with his own
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Himself Own Property

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