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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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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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A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
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The fact that the stars predict high or low rank for the father of the person whose horoscope is taken, teaches that they do not always make things happen but sometimes only indicate things. For how could things which preceded the birth depend upon the birth?
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Every bad precedent originated as a justifiable measure.
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Deliberate before you begin but, having carefully done so, execute with vigour.
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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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It is always easy to begin a war, but very difficult to stop one.
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Neither the army nor the treasury, but friends, are the true supports of the throne for friends cannot be collected by force of arms, nor purchased with money they are the offspring of kindness and sincerity.
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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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In battle it is the cowards who run the most risk bravery is a rampart of defense.
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The very life which we enjoy is short. [Lat., Vita ipsa qua fruimur brevis est.]
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Do as much as possible, and talk of yourself as little as possible
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Sovereignty is easily preserved by the very arts by which it was originally created. When, however, energy has given place to indifference, and temperance and justice to passion and arrogance, then as the morals change so changes fortune.
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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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One can ever assume to be what he is not, and to conceal what he is.
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No man underestimates the wrongs he suffers many take them more seriously than is right.
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Among intellectual pursuits, one of the most useful is the recording of past events.
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Before you act consider when you have considered, tis fully time to act.
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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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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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