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Few men desire liberty most men wish only for a just master.
Sallust
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Sallust
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Gaius Sallustius Crispus
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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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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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The glory of wealth and of beauty is fleeting and frail virtue is illustrious and everlasting.
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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.
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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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Fortune rules in all things, and advances and depresses things more out of her own will than right and justice.
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To hope for safety in flight, when you have turned away from the enemy the arms by which the body is defended, is indeed madness. In battle those who are most afraid are always in most danger but courage is equivalent to rampart.
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One can ever assume to be what he is not, and to conceal what he is.
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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 very life which we enjoy is short. [Lat., Vita ipsa qua fruimur brevis est.]
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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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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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Since we have received everything from the Gods, and it is right to pay the giver some tithe of his gifts, we pay such a tithe of possessions in votive offering, of bodies in gifts of (hair and) adornment, and of life in sacrifices.
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No grief reaches the dead.
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By the wicked the good conduct of others is always dreaded.
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All those who offer an opinion on any doubtful point should first clear their minds of every sentiment of dislike, friendship, anger or pity.
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