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There were few who preferred honor to money.
Sallust
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Sallust
Ancient Roman Historian
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Gaius Sallustius Crispus
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The very life which we enjoy is short. [Lat., Vita ipsa qua fruimur brevis est.]
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The glory of wealth and of beauty is fleeting and frail virtue is illustrious and everlasting.
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We employ the mind to rule, the body to serve.
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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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Since we have received everything from the Gods, and it is right to pay the giver some tithe of his gifts, we pay such a tithe of possessions in votive offering, of bodies in gifts of (hair and) adornment, and of life in sacrifices.
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Do as much as possible, and talk of yourself as little as possible
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Harmony makes small things grow lack of it makes great things decay.
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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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Deliberate before you begin but, having carefully done so, execute with vigour.
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If fortune makes a wicked man prosperous and a good man poor, there is no need to wonder. For the wicked regard wealth as everything, the good as nothing. And the good fortune of the bad cannot take away their badness, while virtue alone will be enough for the good.
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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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A small state increases by concord the greatest falls gradually to ruin by dissension.
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No man underestimates the wrongs he suffers many take them more seriously than is right.
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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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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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It is always easy to begin a war, but very difficult to stop one.
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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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A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
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