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We employ the mind to rule, the body to serve.
Sallust
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Sallust
Ancient Roman Historian
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Gaius Sallustius Crispus
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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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Before you act consider when you have considered, tis fully time to act.
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Harmony makes small things grow lack of it makes great things decay.
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Among intellectual pursuits, one of the most useful is the recording of past events.
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Poor Britons, there is some good in them after all - they produced an oyster.
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Most honorable are services rendered to the State even if they do not go beyond words, they are not to be despised.
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Ambition breaks the ties of blood, and forgets the obligations of gratitude.
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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 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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The higher your station, the less your liberty.
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Distinguished ancestors shed a powerful light on their descendants, and forbid the concealment either of their merits or of their demerits.
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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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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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