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Sallust
The fame that...
The fame that goes with wealth and beauty is fleeting and fragile; intellectual superiority is a possession glorious...
No mortal man...
No mortal man has ever served at the same time his passions and his best interests.
Every bad precedent...
Every bad precedent originated as a justifiable measure.
Source: In The Speaker's...
No man underestimates...
No man underestimates the wrongs he suffers; many take them more seriously than is right.
It is the...
It is the nature of ambition to make men liars and cheats, to hide the truth in their breasts, and show, like...