40s BC

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If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.

Cicero

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Cicero, Marcus Tullius. Letter to Marcus Terentius Varro. c. 46 BC.

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Cicero, Marcus Tullius. Letters to Friends, edited and translated by D. R. Shackleton Bailey. Vol. 2, Harvard University Press, 2001.

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What is left when honor is lost?

Publilius Syrus

Sententiae

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Publilius Syrus. Sententiae. c. 1st century BC.

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In truth, prosperity tries the souls even of the wise.

Sallust

The War of Catiline

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Sallust. Bellum Catilinae [War of Catiline]. c. 43–40 BC.

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Sallust. "The War with Catiline." The War with Catiline and The War with Jugurtha, translated by John T. Ramsey J. C. Rolfe. Harvard University Press, 2013.

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The shifts of Fortune test the reliability of friends.

Quintus Ennius

Quoted in On Friendship, by Cicero

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Cicero, Marcus Tullius. Laelius de Amicitia. c. 44 BC, ch. 17, sect. 64.

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