It is sweet to surve one country by deeds, and it is not absurd to surve her by words.
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But few prize honour more than money.
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SallustSallust But assuredly Fortune rules in all things; she raised to eminence or buries in oblivion everything from caprice rather than from well-regulated principle.
SallustSallust To like and dislike the same things that is indeed true friendship.
SallustSallust To have the same desires and the same aversion is assuredly a firm bond of friendship.
SallustSallust Get good counsel before you begin; and when you have decided, act promptly.
SallustSallust Ambition drove many men to become false; to have one thought locked in the breast, another ready on the tongue.
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SallustSallust Everything that rises sets, and everything that grows, grows old.
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SallustSallust No grief reaches the dead.
SallustSallust By union the smallest states thrive. By discord the greatest are destroyed.
SallustSallust Just to stir things up seemed a great reward in itself.
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SallustSallust 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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