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   86 - 34 BC

Roman  historian  and  politician.  As  Governor  of  Numidia  he enriched   himself   enormously.   He   wrote   Bellum   Catilinae, Bellum  Iugurthinum  and  Historiarum  libri  quinque,  of   which only fragments survive.

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Sed profecto Fortuna in omni re dominatur; ea res cunctas ex lubidine magis, quam ex vero, celebrat, obscuratque.

But assuredly Fortune rules in all things; she raises to eminence or buries in oblivion everything from caprice rather than from well-regulated principle.
— Sallust, Catilina, VIII.

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Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master.

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— Sallust (Gaius Sallustius Crispus) in Histories.

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