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In my opinion it is less shameful for a king to be overcome by force of arms than by bribery.

Sallust

One can ever assume to be what he is not, and to conceal what he is.
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Assume Conceal Himself
Harmony makes small things grow; lack of it makes great things decay.
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Decay Deep Greatness Growth Harmony
But few prize honour more than money.
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Honor Money Prize
Fortune rules in all things, and advances and depresses things more out of her own will than right and justice.
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Depression Fortune Justice Rule Willing
Small communities grow great through harmony, great ones fall to pieces through discord.
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Community Discord Greatness Harmony Oneself Pieces Small
Necessity makes even the timid brave.
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Brave Circumstance Coward Necessary
To like and dislike the same things that is indeed true friendship.
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Bond Friendship True
A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
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Defeat Goodness Justice Man
For harmony makes small states great, while discord undermines the mightiest empires.
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Empire Greatness Harmony Small State
To hope for safety in flight, when you have turned away from the enemy the arms by which the body is defended, is indeed madness. In battle those who are most afraid are always in most danger; but courage is equivalent to rampart.
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Afraid Body Courage Defeat Enemy Equivalent Hope Madness Safety
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
To desire the same things and to reject the same things, constitutes true friendship.
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Desire Friendship Reject
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
Just to stir things up seemed a great reward in itself.
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Greatness Reward
All men who would surpass the other animals should do their best not to pass through life silently like the beasts whom nature made prone, obedient to their bellies.
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Animal Best Life Man Obedience Stomach Through
Of 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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Animate Consist Cosmos God Harmony

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