The glory of riches and of beauty is frail and transitory; virtue remains bright and eternal.
SALLUSTOf 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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Harmony makes small things grow; lack of it makes great things decay.
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Fame is the shadow of passion standing in the light.
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By union the smallest states thrive. By discord the greatest are destroyed.
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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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Necessity makes even the timid brave.
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But assuredly Fortune rules in all things; she raised to eminence or buries in oblivion everything from caprice rather than from well-regulated principle.
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It is impossible that there should be so much providence in the last details, and none in the first principles. Then the arts of prophecy and of healing, which are part of the cosmos, come of the good providence of the Gods.
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All persons who are enthusiastic that they should transcend the other animals ought to strive with the utmost effort not to pass through a life of silence, like cattle, which nature has fashioned to be prone and obedient to their stomachs.
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Since we have received everything from the Gods, and it is right to pay the giver some tithe of his gifts, we pay such a tithe of possessions in votive offering, of bodies in gifts of (hair and) adornment, and of life in sacrifices.
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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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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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Prosperity tries the souls even of the wise.
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The firmest friendship is based on an identity of likes and dislikes.
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He that will be angry for anything will be angry for nothing.
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Just to stir things up seemed a great reward in itself.
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Enough words, little wisdom.
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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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The fame that goes with wealth and beauty is fleeting and fragile; intellectual superiority is a possession glorious and eternal.
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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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Deliberate before you begin; but, having carefully done so, execute with vigour.
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Fortune rules in all things, and advances and depresses things more out of her own will than right and justice.
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Small communities grow great through harmony, great ones fall to pieces through discord.
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For men who had easily endured hardship, danger and difficult uncertainty, leisure and riches, though in some ways desirable, proved burdensome and a source of grief.
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Do as much as possible, and talk of yourself as little as possible.
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Everything that rises sets, and everything that grows, grows old.
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But the case has proved that to be true which Appius says in his songs, that each man is the maker of his own fate.
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