Sallust Quotes - Page 5

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• The glory of ancestors sheds a light around posterity; it allows neither good nor bad qualities to remain in obscurity.
  [Lat., Majorum gloria posteris lumen est, neque bona neque mala in occulto patitur.]

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  Light, Quality, Bad Qualities

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• It is sweet to surve one country by deeds, and it is not absurd to surve her by words.

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  Country, Sweet, 4th Of July

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• Most honorable are services rendered to the State; even if they do not go beyond words, they are not to be despised.

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  States, Honorable, Despised

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• The fact that the stars predict high or low rank for the father of the person whose horoscope is taken, teaches that they do not always make things happen but sometimes only indicate things. For how could things which preceded the birth depend upon the birth?

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  Stars, Father, Taken

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• A small state increases by concord; the greatest falls gradually to ruin by dissension.

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  Fall, Ruins, Increase

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• Again, if the world is destroyed, it must needs either be destroyed according to nature or against nature. Against nature is impossible, for that which is against nature is not stronger than nature. If according to nature, there must be another nature which changes the nature of the world: which does not appear.

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  Stronger, Doe, Needs

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• That power of the Gods which orders for the good things which are not uniform, and which happen contrary to expectation, is commonly called Fortune, and it is for this reason that the Goddess is especially worshipped in public by cities; for every city consists of elements which are not uniform.

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  Order, Cities, Expectations

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• All who consult on doubtful matters, should be void of hatred, friendship, anger, and pity.

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  Friendship, Anger, Hatred

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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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  Art, Names, Engagement

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