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.
SALLUSTFor men who had easily endured hardship, danger and difficult uncertainty, leisure and riches, though in some ways desirable, proved burdensome and a source of grief.
More Sallust Quotes
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But assuredly Fortune rules in all things; she raised to eminence or buries in oblivion everything from caprice rather than from well-regulated principle.
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Among intellectual pursuits, one of the most useful is the recording of past events.
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Each man the architect of his own fate.
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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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Fame is the shadow of passion standing in the light.
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Fortune rules in all things, and advances and depresses things more out of her own will than right and justice.
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But few prize honour more than money.
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Prosperity tries the souls even of the wise.
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All men who would surpass the other animals should do their best not to pass through life silently like the beasts whom nature made prone, obedient to their bellies.
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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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All those who offer an opinion on any doubtful point should first clear their minds of every sentiment of dislike, friendship, anger or pity.
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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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Necessity makes even the timid brave.
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Deliberate before you begin; but, having carefully done so, execute with vigour.
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