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Sallust Quotes
The fame that goes with wealth and beauty is fleeting and fragile; intellectual superiority is a possession glorious and eternal.
Sallust

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Historian Quotes
Category:
Roman Historian Quotes
Year of Birth:
86 BC
Year of Death:
34 BC
Nationality:
Roman
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