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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.
Sallust
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Gaius Sallustius Crispus
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Since we have received everything from the Gods, and it is right to pay the giver some tithe of his gifts, we pay such a tithe of possessions in votive offering, of bodies in gifts of (hair and) adornment, and of life in sacrifices.
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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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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 renown which riches or beauty confer is fleeting and frail mental excellence is a splendid and lasting possession.
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A small state increases by concord the greatest falls gradually to ruin by dissension.
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Few men desire liberty most men wish only for a just master.
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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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One can ever assume to be what he is not, and to conceal what he is.
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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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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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Small endeavours obtain strength by unity of action: the most powerful are broken down by discord.
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Every bad precedent originated as a justifiable measure.
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Harmony makes small things grow lack of it makes great things decay.
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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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No mortal man has ever served at the same time his passions and his best interests.
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Among intellectual pursuits, one of the most useful is the recording of past events.
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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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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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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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