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The very life which we enjoy is short. [Lat., Vita ipsa qua fruimur brevis est.]
Sallust
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Ancient Roman Historian
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Gaius Sallustius Crispus
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When the prizes fall to the lot of the wicked, you will not find many who are virtuous for virtue's sake.
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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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Few men desire liberty most men wish only for a just master.
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For men who had easily endured hardship, danger and difficult uncertainty, leisure and riches, though in some ways desirable, proved burdensome and a source of grief.
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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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Fortune rules in all things, and advances and depresses things more out of her own will than right and justice.
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A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
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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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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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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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Ambition breaks the ties of blood, and forgets the obligations of gratitude.
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Harmony makes small things grow lack of it makes great things decay.
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The Romans assisted their allies and friends, and acquired friendships by giving rather than receiving kindness. [Lat., Sociis atque amicis auxilia portabant Romani, magisque dandis quam accipiundis beneficiis amicitias parabant.]
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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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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 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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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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By the wicked the good conduct of others is always dreaded.
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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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