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No grief reaches the dead.
Sallust
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Sallust
Ancient Roman Historian
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Gaius Sallustius Crispus
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To someone seeking power, the poorest man is the most useful.
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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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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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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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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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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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No mortal man has ever served at the same time his passions and his best interests.
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Deliberate before you begin but, having carefully done so, execute with vigour.
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The Gods being good and making all things, there is no positive evil, it only comes by absence of good just as darkness itself does not exist, but only comes about by absence of light.
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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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One can ever assume to be what he is not, and to conceal what he is.
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The fame which is based on wealth or beauty is a frail and fleeting thing but virtue shines for ages with undiminished lustre.
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It is impossible that there should be so much providence in the last details, and none in the first principles. Then the arts of prophecy and of healing, which are part of the cosmos, come of the good providence of the Gods.
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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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It is sweet to surve one country by deeds, and it is not absurd to surve her by words.
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The renown which riches or beauty confer is fleeting and frail mental excellence is a splendid and lasting possession.
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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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Poor Britons, there is some good in them after all - they produced an oyster.
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