In victory even the cowardly like to boast, while in adverse times even the brave are discredited.
SallustAll men who would surpass the other animals should do their best not to pass through life silently like the beasts whom nature made prone, obedient to their bellies.
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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