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One can ever assume to be what he is not, and to conceal what he is.

Sallust

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
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
Fame is the shadow of passion standing in the light.
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Fame Light Passion Shadow Stand
Small communities grow great through harmony, great ones fall to pieces through discord.
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Community Discord Greatness Harmony Oneself Pieces Small
A good man prefers to suffer rather than overcome injustice with evil.
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Evil Goodness Justice Man Preference
No mortal man has ever served at the same time his passions and his best interests.
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Best Interest Man Mortal Passion Serve Time
For men who had easily endured hardship, danger and difficult uncertainty, leisure and riches, though in some ways desirable, proved burdensome and a source of grief.
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Dangerous Desire Easy Endurance Men Source Way
By the wicked the good conduct of others is always dreaded.
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Dread Goodness Wicked
He that will be angry for anything will be angry for nothing.
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Angry Deep Emotion Feeling Himself
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 higher your station, the less your liberty.
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High Liberty Station Yourself
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
Harmony makes small things grow; lack of it makes great things decay.
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Decay Deep Greatness Growth Harmony
Each man the architect of his own fate.
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Architect Fate Himself Man
Sovereignty is easily preserved by the very arts by which it was originally created. When, however, energy has given place to indifference, and temperance and justice to passion and arrogance, then as the morals change so changes fortune.
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Arrogance Art Change Creation Easy Fortune Justice Original Place Preserve

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