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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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A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
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Poor Britons, there is some good in them after all - they produced an oyster.
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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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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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