The glory of riches and of beauty is frail and transitory; virtue remains bright and eternal.
SALLUSTThe poorest of men are the most useful to those seeking power.
More Sallust Quotes
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But few prize honour more than money.
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As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.
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Neither soldiers nor money can defend a king but only friends won by good deeds, merit, and honesty.
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Small communities grow great through harmony, great ones fall to pieces through discord.
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Kings are more prone to mistrust the good than the bad; and they are always afraid of the virtues of others.
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Deliberate before you begin; but, having carefully done so, execute with vigour.
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No mortal man has ever served at the same time his passions and his best interests.
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The glory of wealth and of beauty is fleeting and frail; virtue is illustrious and everlasting.
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By the wicked the good conduct of others is always dreaded.
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To like and dislike the same things that is indeed true friendship.
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For harmony makes small states great, while discord undermines the mightiest empires.
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Just to stir things up seemed a great reward in itself.
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No man underestimates the wrongs he suffers; many take them more seriously than is right.
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The poorest of men are the most useful to those seeking power.
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It is always easy to begin a war, but very difficult to stop one.
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The fame that goes with wealth and beauty is fleeting and fragile; intellectual superiority is a possession glorious and eternal.
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In my opinion, he only may be truly said to live and enjoy his being who is engaged in some laudable pursuit, and acquires a name by some illustrious action, or useful art.
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Among intellectual pursuits, one of the most useful is the recording of past events.
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When the prizes fall to the lot of the wicked, you will not find many who are virtuous for virtue’s sake.
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Everything destroyed is either resolved into the elements from which it came, or else vanishes into not-being. If things are resolved into the elements from which they came, then there will be others: else how did they come into being at all?
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There were few who preferred honor to money.
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Every bad precedent originated as a justifiable measure.
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Ambition drove many men to become false; to have one thought locked in the breast, another ready on the tongue.
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Those most moved to tears by every word of a preacher are generally weak and a rascal when the feelings evaporate.
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Neither the army nor the treasury, but friends, are the true supports of the throne; for friends cannot be collected by force of arms, nor purchased with money; they are the offspring of kindness and sincerity.
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Poor Britons, there is some good in them after all – they produced an oyster.
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