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Fortune rules in all things, and advances and depresses things more out of her own will than right and justice.
Sallust
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Sallust
Ancient Roman Historian
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Gaius Sallustius Crispus
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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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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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A small state increases by concord the greatest falls gradually to ruin by dissension.
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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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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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The glory of wealth and of beauty is fleeting and frail virtue is illustrious and everlasting.
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Small endeavours obtain strength by unity of action: the most powerful are broken down by discord.
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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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The higher your station, the less your liberty.
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Deliberate before you begin but, having carefully done so, execute with vigour.
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The soul is the captain and ruler of the life of morals.
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It is always easy to begin a war, but very difficult to stop one.
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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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All those who offer an opinion on any doubtful point should first clear their minds of every sentiment of dislike, friendship, anger or pity.
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The very life which we enjoy is short. [Lat., Vita ipsa qua fruimur brevis est.]
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A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
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Among intellectual pursuits, one of the most useful is the recording of past events.
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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 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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Fame is the shadow of passion standing in the light
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