All men who would surpass the other animals should do their best not to pass through life silently like the beasts whom nature made prone, obedient to their bellies.
SALLUSTThe 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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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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Sovereignty is easily preserved by the very arts by which it was originally created. When, however, energy has given place to indifference, and temperance and justice to passion and arrogance, then as the morals change so changes fortune.
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No grief reaches the dead.
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The glory of ancestors sheds a light around posterity; it allows neither good nor bad qualities to remain in obscurity.
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The glory of riches and of beauty is frail and transitory; virtue remains bright and eternal.
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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 glory of wealth and of beauty is fleeting and frail; virtue is illustrious and everlasting.
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They envy the distinction I have won; let them therefore, envy my toils, my honesty, and the methods by which I gained it.
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Poor Britons, there is some good in them after all – they produced an oyster.
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The man who is roused neither by glory nor by danger it is in vain to exhort; terror closes the ears of the mind.
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It is always easy to begin a war, but very difficult to stop one.
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Fame is the shadow of passion standing in the light.
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The soul is the captain and ruler of the life of morals.
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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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Not by vows nor by womanish prayers is the help of the gods obtained; success comes through vigilance, energy, wise counsel.
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