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• Verum ubi pro labore desidia, pro continentia et aequitate libido atque superbia invasere, fortuna simul cum moribus immutatur. Ita imperium semper ad optimum quemque a minus bono transfertur. (II)

  

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• Nam divitiarum et formae gloria fluxa atque fragilis est, virtus clara aeternaque habetur.

  

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• Sed multi mortales dediti ventri atque somno, indocti incultique vitam sicuti peregrinantes transiere.

  

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• Sed nostra omnis vis in animo et corpore sita est; animi imperio, corporis servitio magis utimur; alterum nobis cum dis, alterum cum beluis commune est.

  

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• Necessity makes even the timid brave.

  

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  • Brave
  • Necessity
  • Even

• Sed ego adolescentulus initio sicuti plerique studio ad rem publicam latus sum, ibique mihi multa adversa fuere. Nam pro pudore, pro abstinentia, pro virtute, audacia, largitio, avaritia vigebant.

  

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  • Ego

• Omnes homines, patres conscripti, qui de rebus dubiis consultant, ab odio, amicitia, ira atque misericordia vacuos esse decet.

  

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• Every man is the architect of his own fortune.

  

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  • Man
  • Fortune
  • Every Man

• At nos non imperium neque divitias petimus, quarum rerum causa bella atque certamina omnia inter mortales sunt, sed libertatem, quam nemo bonus nisi cum anima simul amittit.

  

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• Nam idem velle atque idem nolle, ea demum firma amicitia est.

  

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• Satis eloquentiae, sapientiae parum.

  

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• Sed res docuit id verum esse, quod in carminibus Appius ait, fabrum esse suae quemque fortunae.

  

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• In battle it is the cowards who run the most risk; bravery is a rampart of defense.

  

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  • War
  • Risk
  • Battle

• Those most moved to tears by every word of a preacher are generally weak and a rascal when the feelings evaporate.

  

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  • Feelings
  • Tears
  • Word

• Namque pauci libertatem, pars magna iustos dominos volunt.

  

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• In my own case, who have spent my whole life in the practice of virtue, right conduct from habitual has become natural.

  

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  • Life
  • Practice
  • My Own

• The higher your station, the less your liberty.

  

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  • Liberty
  • Higher
  • Less

• The glory that goes with wealth is fleeting and fragile; virtue is a possession glorious and eternal.

  

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  • Wealth
  • Glory
  • Eternal

• Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master.

  

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  • Men
  • Desire
  • Wish

• All who consult on doubtful matters, should be void of hatred, friendship, anger, and pity.

  

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  • Friendship
  • Anger
  • Hatred

• Ambitio multos mortales falsos fieri subegit, aliud clausum in pectore, aliud in lingua promptum habere, amicitias inimicitiasque non ex re, sed ex commodo aestimare, magisque vultum quam ingenium bonum habere.

  

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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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  • Light
  • Powerful
  • Ancestors

• 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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  • Good
  • Bad
  • Kings

• Small communities grow great through harmony, great ones fall to pieces through discord.

  

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  • Great
  • Small
  • Fall