Not by vows nor by womanish prayers is the help of the gods obtained; success comes through vigilance, energy, wise counsel.
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He that will be angry for anything will be angry for nothing.
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Those most moved to tears by every word of a preacher are generally weak and a rascal when the feelings evaporate.
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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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But at power or wealth, for the sake of which wars, and all kinds of strife, arise among mankind, we do not aim; we desire only our liberty, which no honorable man relinquishes but with his life.
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In battle it is the cowards who run the most risk; bravery is a rampart of defense.
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The soul is the captain and ruler of the life of morals.
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To someone seeking power, the poorest man is the most useful.
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The higher your station, the less your liberty.
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To like and dislike the same things that is indeed true friendship.
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Prosperity tries the souls even of the wise.
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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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Before you act consider; when you have considered, tis fully time to act.
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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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It is always easy to begin a war, but very difficult to stop one.
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