About Sallust
Gaius Sallustius Crispus, usually anglicised as Sallust ( , SAL-əst; c. 86 – c. 35 BC), was a historian and politician of the Roman Republic from a plebeian family. Probably born at Amiternum in the country of the Sabines, Sallust became a partisan of Julius Caesar (100 to 44 BC),...
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Perfection of moral virtue does not wholly take away the passions, but regulates them.
A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
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The ancient Greek definition of happiness was the full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
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