The truly sublime is always easy, and always natural.
In doing good, we are generally cold, and languid, and sluggish; and of all things afraid of being too much in the right. But theworks of malice and injustice are quite in another style. They are finished with a bold, masterly hand; touched as they are with the spirit of those vehement passions that call forth all our energies, whenever we oppress and persecute.
Sallust is indisputably one of the best historians among the Romans, both for the purity of his language and the elegance of his style.
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