—Sallust.
Sallust, a famous Roman historian, was born about 86 B.C., and died at Rome, about 34 B.C. He wrote: “The Conspiracy of Catiline,” and “The History of the War Against Jugurtha.”
A good man possesses a kingdom.
“Thyestes,” 380,—Seneca.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca, an illustrious Roman philosopher, was born at Corduba, in Spain, about the year 4 B.C., and died A.D. 65. Many of his writings have come down to our time, among them 124 “Epistles to Lucilius,” containing exhortations to the practice of virtue: “On Providence,” “Anger,” “Of Benefits,” and “Natural History Questions,” also, several tragedies, among them, “Phædra,” “Thyestes,” and “Medea.”
Habit is stronger than nature.
—Quintus Curtius Rufus.
Quintus Curtius Rufus a notable Eoman historian, was born about the first century A.D. He is the author of “De Rebus Gestis Alexandri Magni” (Deeds of Alexander the Great), in ten books, the first two of which are lost.
The best plan is, as the common proverb has it, to profit by the folly of others.
Natural History, Book xviii, Sect. 31,—Pliny the Elder.