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They envy the distinction I have won let them therefore, envy my toils, my honesty, and the methods by which I gained it.
Sallust
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Ancient Roman Historian
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Gaius Sallustius Crispus
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The higher your station, the less your liberty.
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It is not unlikely, too, that the rejection of God is a kind of punishment: we may well believe that those who knew the Gods and neglected them in one life may in another life be deprived of the knowledge of them altogether. Also those who have worshipped their own kings as gods have deserved as their punishment to lose all knowledge of God.
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If the transmigration of a soul takes place into a rational being, it simply becomes the soul of that body. But if the soul migrates into a brute beast, it follows the body outside, as a guardian spirit follows a man. For there could never be a rational soul in an irrational being.
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Prosperity tries the souls even of the wise.
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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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No one has become immortal by sloth nor has any parent prayed that his children should live forever but rather that they should lead an honorable and upright life. [Lat., Ignavia nemo immortalis factus: neque quisquam parens liberis, uti aeterni forent, optavit magis, uti boni honestique vitam exigerent.]
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Most honorable are services rendered to the State even if they do not go beyond words, they are not to be despised.
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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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One can ever assume to be what he is not, and to conceal what he is.
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Few men desire liberty most men wish only for a just master.
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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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No mortal man has ever served at the same time his passions and his best interests.
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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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