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No grief reaches the dead.

Sallust

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Sallust
Ancient Roman Historian
Ancient Roman Military Personnel
Ancient Roman Politician
Poet
Politician
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Gaius Sallustius Crispus
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Fortune rules in all things, and advances and depresses things more out of her own will than right and justice.
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Before you act consider when you have considered, tis fully time to act.
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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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Those most moved to tears by every word of a preacher are generally weak and a rascal when the feelings evaporate.
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To someone seeking power, the poorest man is the most useful.
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Neither the army nor the treasury, but friends, are the true supports of the throne for friends cannot be collected by force of arms, nor purchased with money they are the offspring of kindness and sincerity.
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A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
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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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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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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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Poor Britons, there is some good in them after all - they produced an oyster.
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Of the bodies in the cosmos, some imitate mind and move in orbits some imitate soul and move in a straight line, fire and air upward, earth and water downward.
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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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The glory of wealth and of beauty is fleeting and frail virtue is illustrious and everlasting.
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