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Sallust: 'Before you act, consider; when you have considered, tis fully time to act.'

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Sallust: '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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Sallust: 'We employ the mind to rule, the body to serve.'

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Tacitus: 'Því spilltara sem ríkið er þeim mun fleiri eru lögin.'

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Tacitus: 'Abuse if you slight it, will gradually die away; but if you show yourself irritated, you will be thought to have deserved it.'

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Tacitus: 'Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.'

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Tacitus: 'Greater things are believed of those who are absent.'

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Tacitus: 'It is less difficult to bear misfortunes than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.'

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Tacitus: 'Custom adapts itself to expediency.'

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Tacitus: 'Candor and generosity, unless tempered by due moderation, leads to ruin.'

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Tacitus: 'We see many who are struggling against adversity who are happy, and more although abounding in wealth, who are wretched.'

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Tacitus: 'No one would have doubted his ability to reign had he never been emperor.'

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Tacitus: 'Those in supreme power always suspect and hate their next heir.'

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Tacitus: 'Prosperity is the measure or touchstone of virtue, for it is less difficult to bear misfortune than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.'

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Tacitus: 'Many who seem to be struggling with adversity are happy; many, amid great affluence, are utterly miserable.'

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Tacitus: 'Victor and vanquished never unite in substantial agreement.'

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Virgil: 'One man excels in eloquence, another in arms.'

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Virgil: 'Who can blind lover's eyes?'

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Virgil: 'Age carries all things away, even the mind.'

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Virgil: 'The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows; it is what a man or woman is able to do that counts.'

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