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The glory of wealth and of beauty is fleeting and frail virtue is illustrious and everlasting.

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Sallust
Ancient Roman Historian
Ancient Roman Military Personnel
Ancient Roman Politician
Poet
Politician
Writer
Gaius Sallustius Crispus
Beauty
Illustrious
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Fleeting
Everlasting
Glory
Wealth
Virtue

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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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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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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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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.
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A small state increases by concord the greatest falls gradually to ruin by dissension.
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It is always easy to begin a war, but very difficult to stop one.
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Poor Britons, there is some good in them after all - they produced an oyster.
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The very life which we enjoy is short. [Lat., Vita ipsa qua fruimur brevis est.]
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One can ever assume to be what he is not, and to conceal what he is.
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Among intellectual pursuits, one of the most useful is the recording of past events.
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They envy the distinction I have won let them therefore, envy my toils, my honesty, and the methods by which I gained it.
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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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We employ the mind to rule, the body to serve.
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For men who had easily endured hardship, danger and difficult uncertainty, leisure and riches, though in some ways desirable, proved burdensome and a source of grief.
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Small endeavours obtain strength by unity of action: the most powerful are broken down by discord.
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Sovereignty is easily preserved by the very arts by which it was originally created. When, however, energy has given place to indifference, and temperance and justice to passion and arrogance, then as the morals change so changes fortune.
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Do as much as possible, and talk of yourself as little as possible
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Ambition breaks the ties of blood, and forgets the obligations of gratitude.
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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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