To someone seeking power, the poorest man is the most useful.
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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Distinguished ancestors shed a powerful light on their descendants, and forbid the concealment either of their merits or of their demerits.
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Everything that rises sets, and everything that grows, grows old.
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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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The glory of ancestors sheds a light around posterity; it allows neither good nor bad qualities to remain in obscurity.
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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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Small communities grow great through harmony, great ones fall to pieces through discord.
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The glory of wealth and of beauty is fleeting and frail; virtue is illustrious and everlasting.
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The poorest of men are the most useful to those seeking power.
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For harmony makes small states great, while discord undermines the mightiest empires.
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A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
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Small endeavours obtain strength by unity of action: the most powerful are broken down by discord.
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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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Each man the architect of his own fate.
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Everything destroyed is either resolved into the elements from which it came, or else vanishes into not-being. If things are resolved into the elements from which they came, then there will be others: else how did they come into being at all?
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Deliberate before you begin; but, having carefully done so, execute with vigour.
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