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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

There were few who preferred honor to money.
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Honor Money Preference
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
To have the same desires and the same aversion is assuredly a firm bond of friendship.
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Bond Desire Friendship
To someone seeking power, the poorest man is the most useful.
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Deep Man Poor Power Seek
The soul is the captain and ruler of the life of morals.
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Captain Life Moral Rule Soul
He that will be angry for anything will be angry for nothing.
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Angry Deep Emotion Feeling Himself
Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.
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Decay Fall Life Philosophy Rise
Enough words, little wisdom.
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Enough Wisdom Word
By the wicked the good conduct of others is always dreaded.
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Dread Goodness Wicked
Of the bodies in the cosmos, some imitate mind and move in orbits; some imitate soul and move in a straight line, fire and air upward, earth and water downward.
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Body Cosmos Down Imitation Move On Soul Water
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
All persons who are enthusiastic that they should transcend the other animals ought to strive with the utmost effort not to pass through a life of silence, like cattle, which nature has fashioned to be prone and obedient to their stomachs.
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Animal Effort Nature Obedience Person Stomach Transcend
No grief reaches the dead.
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Death Grief One Liner Reach
Deliberate before you begin; but, having carefully done so, execute with vigour.
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Beginning Care Execution Zeal
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
The higher your station, the less your liberty.
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High Liberty Station Yourself

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