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The fame which is based on wealth or beauty is a frail and fleeting thing but virtue shines for ages with undiminished lustre.
Sallust
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Sallust
Ancient Roman Historian
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Gaius Sallustius Crispus
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Harmony makes small things grow lack of it makes great things decay.
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The glory of wealth and of beauty is fleeting and frail virtue is illustrious and everlasting.
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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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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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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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For harmony makes small states great, while discord undermines the mightiest empires.
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By the wicked the good conduct of others is always dreaded.
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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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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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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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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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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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There were few who preferred honor to money.
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One can ever assume to be what he is not, and to conceal what he is.
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Prosperity tries the souls even of the wise.
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A small state increases by concord the greatest falls gradually to ruin by dissension.
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That power of the Gods which orders for the good things which are not uniform, and which happen contrary to expectation, is commonly called Fortune, and it is for this reason that the Goddess is especially worshipped in public by cities for every city consists of elements which are not uniform.
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It is sweet to surve one country by deeds, and it is not absurd to surve her by words.
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The renown which riches or beauty confer is fleeting and frail mental excellence is a splendid and lasting possession.
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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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