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No man underestimates the wrongs he suffers many take them more seriously than is right.
Sallust
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Sallust
Ancient Roman Historian
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Gaius Sallustius Crispus
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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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