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The renown which riches or beauty confer is fleeting and frail mental excellence is a splendid and lasting possession.
Sallust
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Sallust
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Gaius Sallustius Crispus
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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 man underestimates the wrongs he suffers many take them more seriously than is right.
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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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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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Before you act consider when you have considered, tis fully time to act.
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