Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.
SALLUST
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Do as much as possible, and talk of yourself as little as possible.
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Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.
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Enough words, little wisdom.
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Ambition drove many men to become false; to have one thought locked in the breast, another ready on the tongue.
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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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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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The soul is the captain and ruler of the life of morals.
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Necessity makes even the timid brave.
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It is better to use fair means and fail, than foul and conquer.
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Do as much as possible, and talk of yourself as little as possible.
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It is a law of human nature that in victory even the coward may boast of his prowess, while defeat injures the reputation even of the brave.
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In victory even the cowardly like to boast, while in adverse times even the brave are discredited.
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To like and dislike the same things that is indeed true friendship.
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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.
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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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The Gods being good and making all things, there is no positive evil, it only comes by absence of good; just as darkness itself does not exist, but only comes about by absence of light.
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Harmony makes small things grow; lack of it makes great things decay.
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