Neither soldiers nor money can defend a king but only friends won by good deeds, merit, and honesty.
SALLUSTIn victory even the cowardly like to boast, while in adverse times even the brave are discredited.
More Sallust Quotes
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The very life which we enjoy is short.
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Small communities grow great through harmony, great ones fall to pieces through discord.
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No grief reaches the dead.
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Of the cosmic Gods some make the world be, others animate it, others harmonize it, consisting as it does of different elements; the fourth class keep it when harmonized.
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The renown which riches or beauty confer is fleeting and frail mental excellence is a splendid and lasting possession.
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It is always easy enough to take up arms, but very difficult to lay them down; the commencement and the termination of war are not necessarily in the same hands; even a coward may begin, but the end comes only when the victors are willing.
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To hope for safety in flight, when you have turned away from the enemy the arms by which the body is defended, is indeed madness. In battle those who are most afraid are always in most danger; but courage is equivalent to rampart.
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Sovereignty is easily preserved by the very arts by which it was originally created. When, however, energy has given place to indifference, and temperance and justice to passion and arrogance, then as the morals change so changes fortune.
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The Gods being good and making all things, there is no positive evil, it only comes by absence of good; just as darkness itself does not exist, but only comes about by absence of light.
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In victory even the cowardly like to boast, while in adverse times even the brave are discredited.
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It is impossible that there should be so much providence in the last details, and none in the first principles. Then the arts of prophecy and of healing, which are part of the cosmos, come of the good providence of the Gods.
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It is sweet to surve one country by deeds, and it is not absurd to surve her by words.
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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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But at power or wealth, for the sake of which wars, and all kinds of strife, arise among mankind, we do not aim; we desire only our liberty, which no honorable man relinquishes but with his life.
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Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master.
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