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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.
Sallust
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Sallust
Ancient Roman Historian
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Gaius Sallustius Crispus
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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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For harmony makes small states great, while discord undermines the mightiest empires.
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