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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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Gaius Sallustius Crispus
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Harmony makes small things grow lack of it makes great things decay.
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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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The very life which we enjoy is short. [Lat., Vita ipsa qua fruimur brevis est.]
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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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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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