Since we have received everything from the Gods, and it is right to pay the giver some tithe of his gifts, we pay such a tithe of possessions in votive offering, of bodies in gifts of (hair and) adornment, and of life in sacrifices.
SallustIn my own case, who have spent my whole life in the practice of virtue, right conduct from habitual has become natural.
SallustBut the case has proved that to be true which Appius says in his songs, that each man is the maker of his own fate.
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