Roman - Historian | 86 BC - 34 BC
As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.
Sallust
HealthBeginningEndBlessingsFall
All who consult on doubtful matters, should be void of hatred, friendship, anger, and pity.
FriendshipAngerMattersHatredPity
We employ the mind to rule, the body to serve.
MindBodyServeRuleEmploy
The higher your station, the less your liberty.
LibertyYourHigherLessStation
Just to stir things up seemed a great reward in itself.
GreatRewardUpThingsJustStir
No mortal man has ever served at the same time his passions and his best interests.
TimeBestManSamePassionsHis
The fame that goes with wealth and beauty is fleeting and fragile; intellectual superiority is a possession glorious and eternal.
BeautyWealthFameIntellectualGoes
They envy the distinction I have won; let them therefore, envy my toils, my honesty, and the methods by which I gained it.
HonestyEnvyMethodsWonWhichThem
It is better to use fair means and fail, than foul and conquer.
ConquerBetterFairFailThanMeans
In my own case, who have spent my whole life in the practice of virtue, right conduct from habitual has become natural.
LifePracticeMy OwnBecomeVirtue
Do as much as possible, and talk of yourself as little as possible.
YourselfPossibleTalkLittleMuch
Everything that rises sets, and everything that grows, grows old.
OldEverythingGrowsRisesSets
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