Among intellectual pursuits, one of the most useful is the recording of past events.
SALLUSTSallust Quotes
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Among intellectual pursuits, one of the most useful is the recording of past events.
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Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master.
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Necessity makes even the timid brave.
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In battle it is the cowards who run the most risk; bravery is a rampart of defense.
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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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Poor Britons, there is some good in them after all – they produced an oyster.
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Of 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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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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We employ the mind to rule, the body to serve.
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To desire the same things and to reject the same things, constitutes true friendship.
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