Deliberate before you begin; but, having carefully done so, execute with vigour.
SALLUSTThe 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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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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No mortal man has ever served at the same time his passions and his best interests.
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Just to stir things up seemed a great reward in itself.
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The poorest of men are the most useful to those seeking power.
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The glory of ancestors sheds a light around posterity; it allows neither good nor bad qualities to remain in obscurity.
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It is sweet to surve one country by deeds, and it is not absurd to surve her by words.
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No grief reaches the dead.
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Greedy for the property of others, extravagant with his own
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It is always easy enough to take up arms, but very difficult to lay them down; the commencement and the termination of war are not necessarily in the same hands; even a coward may begin, but the end comes only when the victors are willing.
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The soul is the captain and ruler of the life of morals.
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As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.
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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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By the wicked the good conduct of others is always dreaded.
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Get good counsel before you begin; and when you have decided, act promptly.
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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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