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It is a law of human nature that in victory even the coward may boast of his prowess, while defeat injures the reputation even of the brave.
Sallust
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Sallust
Ancient Roman Historian
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Gaius Sallustius Crispus
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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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The very life which we enjoy is short. [Lat., Vita ipsa qua fruimur brevis est.]
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Few men desire liberty most men wish only for a just master.
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A small state increases by concord the greatest falls gradually to ruin by dissension.
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No man underestimates the wrongs he suffers many take them more seriously than is right.
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No grief reaches the dead.
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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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Before you act consider when you have considered, tis fully time to act.
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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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Every bad precedent originated as a justifiable measure.
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The higher your station, the less your liberty.
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When the prizes fall to the lot of the wicked, you will not find many who are virtuous for virtue's sake.
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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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For harmony makes small states great, while discord undermines the mightiest empires.
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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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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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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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