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Do as much as possible, and talk of yourself as little as possible.

Sallust

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
Everything that rises sets, and everything that grows, grows old.
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Growth Old Rise
Fame is the shadow of passion standing in the light.
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Fame Light Passion Shadow Stand
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
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
Just to stir things up seemed a great reward in itself.
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Greatness Reward
Kings are more prone to mistrust the good than the bad; and they are always afraid of the virtues of others.
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Afraid Bad Goodness Trust Virtue
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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Desire Himself Kind Liberty Life Man Power War Wealth
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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Counsel Energy God Help Prayer Promise Success Vow Wisdom
By the wicked the good conduct of others is always dreaded.
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Dread Goodness Wicked
To have the same desires and the same aversion is assuredly a firm bond of friendship.
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Bond Desire Friendship
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 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
Necessity makes even the timid brave.
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Brave Circumstance Coward Necessary
By union the smallest states thrive. By discord the greatest are destroyed.
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Destroy Greatness Small State Thrive
But assuredly Fortune rules in all things; she raised to eminence or buries in oblivion everything from caprice rather than from well-regulated principle.
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Assurance Bury Fate Fortune Principle Raise Rule

Do as much as possible, and talk of yourself as little as possible.

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