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Before you act consider when you have considered, tis fully time to act.
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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One can ever assume to be what he is not, and to conceal what he is.
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Distinguished ancestors shed a powerful light on their descendants, and forbid the concealment either of their merits or of their demerits.
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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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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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Small endeavours obtain strength by unity of action: the most powerful are broken down by discord.
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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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The very life which we enjoy is short. [Lat., Vita ipsa qua fruimur brevis est.]
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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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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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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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The fact that the stars predict high or low rank for the father of the person whose horoscope is taken, teaches that they do not always make things happen but sometimes only indicate things. For how could things which preceded the birth depend upon the birth?
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