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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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The renown which riches or beauty confer is fleeting and frail mental excellence is a splendid and lasting possession.
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Prosperity tries the souls even of the wise.
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For harmony makes small states great, while discord undermines the mightiest empires.
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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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Ambition breaks the ties of blood, and forgets the obligations of gratitude.
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A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
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Small endeavours obtain strength by unity of action: the most powerful are broken down by discord.
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Poor Britons, there is some good in them after all - they produced an oyster.
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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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One can ever assume to be what he is not, and to conceal what he is.
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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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