It is impossible that there should be so much providence in the last details, and none in the first principles. Then the arts of prophecy and of healing, which are part of the cosmos, come of the good providence of the Gods.
SallustIn victory even the cowardly like to boast, while in adverse times even the brave are discredited.
SallustFortune rules in all things, and advances and depresses things more out of her own will than right and justice.
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