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Not by vows nor by womanish prayers is the help of the gods obtained; success comes through vigilance, energy, wise counsel.

Sallust

The man who is roused neither by glory nor by danger it is in vain to exhort; terror closes the ears of the mind.
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Dangerous Glory Man Mindset Terror
There were few who preferred honor to money.
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Honor Money Preference
To like and dislike the same things that is indeed true friendship.
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Bond Friendship True
The renown which riches or beauty confer is fleeting and frail mental excellence is a splendid and lasting possession.
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Beautiful Excellence Mental Possession Rich
No grief reaches the dead.
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Death Grief One Liner Reach
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
Among intellectual pursuits, one of the most useful is the recording of past events.
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Event Intellectual Past Pursuit
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 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
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
Every bad precedent originated as a justifiable measure.
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Bad Measurement Origin
In my opinion it is less shameful for a king to be overcome by force of arms than by bribery.
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Arms Bribe Force Opinion Shame
Poor Britons, there is some good in them after all – they produced an oyster.
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Goodness Pearl Production
One can ever assume to be what he is not, and to conceal what he is.
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Assume Conceal Himself
But few prize honour more than money.
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Honor Money Prize
By union the smallest states thrive. By discord the greatest are destroyed.
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Destroy Greatness Small State Thrive

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