It is sweet to surve one country by deeds, and it is not absurd to surve her by words.
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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Advise well before you begin, and when you have maturely considered, then act with promptitude.
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But few prize honour more than money.
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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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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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No mortal man has ever served at the same time his passions and his best interests.
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Those most moved to tears by every word of a preacher are generally weak and a rascal when the feelings evaporate.
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For harmony makes small states great, while discord undermines the mightiest empires.
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Ambition drove many men to become false; to have one thought locked in the breast, another ready on the tongue.
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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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But at power or wealth, for the sake of which wars, and all kinds of strife, arise among mankind, we do not aim; we desire only our liberty, which no honorable man relinquishes but with his life.
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Every bad precedent originated as a justifiable measure.
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The firmest friendship is based on an identity of likes and dislikes.
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Among intellectual pursuits, one of the most useful is the recording of past events.
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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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Just to stir things up seemed a great reward in itself.
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