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Do as much as possible, and talk of yourself as little as possible
Sallust
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Sallust
Ancient Roman Historian
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Gaius Sallustius Crispus
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In battle it is the cowards who run the most risk bravery is a rampart of defense.
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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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Ambition breaks the ties of blood, and forgets the obligations of gratitude.
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We employ the mind to rule, the body to serve.
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Prosperity tries the souls even of the wise.
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To someone seeking power, the poorest man is the most useful.
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It is impossible that there should be so much providence in the last details, and none in the first principles. Then the arts of prophecy and of healing, which are part of the cosmos, come of the good providence of the Gods.
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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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Every bad precedent originated as a justifiable measure.
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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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That power of the Gods which orders for the good things which are not uniform, and which happen contrary to expectation, is commonly called Fortune, and it is for this reason that the Goddess is especially worshipped in public by cities for every city consists of elements which are not uniform.
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Small endeavours obtain strength by unity of action: the most powerful are broken down by discord.
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No mortal man has ever served at the same time his passions and his best interests.
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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.
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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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It is sweet to surve one country by deeds, and it is not absurd to surve her by words.
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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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Deliberate before you begin but, having carefully done so, execute with vigour.
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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 higher your station, the less your liberty.
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