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It is sweet to surve one country by deeds, and it is not absurd to surve her by words.
Sallust
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Sallust
Ancient Roman Historian
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Gaius Sallustius Crispus
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Among intellectual pursuits, one of the most useful is the recording of past events.
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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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Poor Britons, there is some good in them after all - they produced an oyster.
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We employ the mind to rule, the body to serve.
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No man underestimates the wrongs he suffers many take them more seriously than is right.
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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 fame which is based on wealth or beauty is a frail and fleeting thing but virtue shines for ages with undiminished lustre.
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Small endeavours obtain strength by unity of action: the most powerful are broken down by discord.
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If fortune makes a wicked man prosperous and a good man poor, there is no need to wonder. For the wicked regard wealth as everything, the good as nothing. And the good fortune of the bad cannot take away their badness, while virtue alone will be enough for the good.
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In my opinion, he only may be truly said to live and enjoy his being who is engaged in some laudable pursuit, and acquires a name by some illustrious action, or useful art.
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Few men desire liberty most men wish only for a just master.
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A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
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Fortune rules in all things, and advances and depresses things more out of her own will than right and justice.
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The very life which we enjoy is short. [Lat., Vita ipsa qua fruimur brevis est.]
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