A good man prefers to suffer rather than overcome injustice with evil.
SALLUSTOf the cosmic Gods some make the world be, others animate it, others harmonize it, consisting as it does of different elements; the fourth class keep it when harmonized.
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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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The fame which is based on wealth or beauty is a frail and fleeting thing; but virtue shines for ages with undiminished lustre.
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Of the bodies in the cosmos, some imitate mind and move in orbits; some imitate soul and move in a straight line, fire and air upward, earth and water downward.
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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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The poorest of men are the most useful to those seeking power.
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No mortal man has ever served at the same time his passions and his best interests.
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No grief reaches the dead.
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Greedy for the property of others, extravagant with his own
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Just to stir things up seemed a great reward in itself.
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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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In victory even the cowardly like to boast, while in adverse times even the brave are discredited.
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Small communities grow great through harmony, great ones fall to pieces through discord.
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It is always easy to begin a war, but very difficult to stop one.
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Ambition breaks the ties of blood, and forgets the obligations of gratitude.
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Poor Britons, there is some good in them after all – they produced an oyster.
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