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The very life which we enjoy is short. [Lat., Vita ipsa qua fruimur brevis est.]
Sallust
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Sallust
Ancient Roman Historian
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Gaius Sallustius Crispus
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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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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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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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We employ the mind to rule, the body to serve.
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It is not unlikely, too, that the rejection of God is a kind of punishment: we may well believe that those who knew the Gods and neglected them in one life may in another life be deprived of the knowledge of them altogether. Also those who have worshipped their own kings as gods have deserved as their punishment to lose all knowledge of God.
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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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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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The glory of wealth and of beauty is fleeting and frail virtue is illustrious and everlasting.
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Few men desire liberty most men wish only for a just master.
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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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For harmony makes small states great, while discord undermines the mightiest empires.
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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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