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The higher your station, the less your liberty.
Sallust
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Sallust
Ancient Roman Historian
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Gaius Sallustius Crispus
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Deliberate before you begin but, having carefully done so, execute with vigour.
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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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For harmony makes small states great, while discord undermines the mightiest empires.
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