No mortal man has ever served at the same time his passions and his best interests.
SALLUSTOf 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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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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Small communities grow great through harmony, great ones fall to pieces through discord.
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One can ever assume to be what he is not, and to conceal what he is.
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Ambition breaks the ties of blood, and forgets the obligations of gratitude.
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Deliberate before you begin; but, having carefully done so, execute with vigour.
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Each man the architect of his own fate.
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To like and dislike the same things that is indeed true friendship.
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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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Advise well before you begin, and when you have maturely considered, then act with promptitude.
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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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Do as much as possible, and talk of yourself as little as possible.
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The firmest friendship is based on an identity of likes and dislikes.
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It 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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Neither the army nor the treasury, but friends, are the true supports of the throne; for friends cannot be collected by force of arms, nor purchased with money; they are the offspring of kindness and sincerity.
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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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