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November 14, 2025

He preferred to be rather than to seem good.

Sallust (86–35 BC), Roman historian and politician, Bellum Catilinae, 54.6, of Cato the Younger

Is this true of yourself? Or is appearance what matters to you?

Best of all is to seem to others to be as good as you prefer to be and in fact are.


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