The War with Jugurtha, 85.38

Sallust  translated by J. C. Rolfe

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38“But those most arrogant of men are greatly in error. Their ancestors have left them all that they could—riches, portrait busts, their own illustrious memory; virtue they have not left them, nor could they have done so; that alone is neither bestowed nor received as a gift.

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