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To someone seeking power, the poorest man is the most useful.
Sallust
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Sallust
Ancient Roman Historian
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Ancient Roman Politician
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Gaius Sallustius Crispus
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Small endeavours obtain strength by unity of action: the most powerful are broken down by discord.
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There were few who preferred honor to money.
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Deliberate before you begin but, having carefully done so, execute with vigour.
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Every bad precedent originated as a justifiable measure.
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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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Before you act consider when you have considered, tis fully time to act.
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No man underestimates the wrongs he suffers many take them more seriously than is right.
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Prosperity tries the souls even of the wise.
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It is sweet to surve one country by deeds, and it is not absurd to surve her by words.
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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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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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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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Among intellectual pursuits, one of the most useful is the recording of past events.
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Of the cosmic Gods some make the world be, others animate it, others harmonize it, consisting as it does of different elements the fourth class keep it when harmonized.
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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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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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