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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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A small state increases by concord the greatest falls gradually to ruin by dissension.
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Ambition breaks the ties of blood, and forgets the obligations of gratitude.
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We employ the mind to rule, the body to serve.
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The higher your station, the less your liberty.
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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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By the wicked the good conduct of others is always dreaded.
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It is a law of human nature that in victory even the coward may boast of his prowess, while defeat injures the reputation even of the brave.
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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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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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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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Every bad precedent originated as a justifiable measure.
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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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