Sallust Quotes
The glory of ancestors sheds a light around posterity; it allows neither good nor bad qualities to remain in obscurity.
Quotes to Explore
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Some kids go walking in the mountains, but I just went to the cinema. So when I told my parents I wanted to be an actor, even though this wasn't normal for Arab kids or anyone in the town, they were sort of expecting it and were very supportive.
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I've been asked to interview for many managing jobs, and I never said yes because I was never serious about it, and I thought it would be wrong to go through that process.
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I don't think of my life as a cliche, but I'm a cliche eccentric. Complete with a strange name - I mean, who's named Val? How many Vals do you know? I mean, really?
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I really have become convinced that nuclear fusion is our energy future. It's so powerful. I mean, it is the power of the stars. If we could bring that down to the laboratory and to the power plant on Earth, that would be an incredible thing.
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Judging from the main portions of the history of the world, so far, justice is always in jeopardy.
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The sadness of the women's movement is that they don't allow the necessity of love. See, I don't personally trust any revolution where love is not allowed.
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We need an honest politician in charge who doesn't care whether they are re-elected and is prepared to make the unpopular decisions.
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You can't base your life on other people's expectations.
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Sarah Cornwell has a brilliant eye for the telling detail, and a wonderfully original way of embodying family history. I was captivated by her memorable characters and the perfectly paced revelations of their surprising relationships.
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The joy I felt as the prospect before me of being the instrument destined to take away from the world one of its greatest calamities (smallpox) was so excessive that I found myself in a kind of reverie.
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Allowing ourselves to become a nation of silent, secretive, timid citizens is likely to result in a system of democracy and justice that is neither very democratic nor very just.
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I do my thing and you do your thing. I am not in this world to live up to your expectations, And you are not in this world to live up to mine. You are you, and I am I, and if by chance we find each other, it's beautiful. If not, it can't be helped.
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My wife is so fat that when she lays on the beach the people feel sorry for her and try to roll her back into the water.
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Women have a smile for every joy, a tear for every sorrow, a consolation for every grief, an excuse for every fault, a prayer for every misfortune, and encouragement for every hope.
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It is not vain glory for a man and his glass to confer in his own chamber.
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(Man,) the glory and the scandal of the universe.
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We're not punished for our sins, lad. We're punished by them.
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It became obvious to me that the risk that I saw, and still feel, of losing the continuity of advice from the chief medical officer who has been immersed in this since the beginning of the outbreak.
