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.
SALLUSTNo man underestimates the wrongs he suffers; many take them more seriously than is right.
More Sallust Quotes
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One can ever assume to be what he is not, and to conceal what he is.
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Each man the architect of his own fate.
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Before you act consider; when you have considered, tis fully time to act.
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To someone seeking power, the poorest man is the most useful.
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Necessity makes even the timid brave.
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It is a law of human nature that in victory even the coward may boast of his prowess, while defeat injures the reputation even of the brave.
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Deliberate before you begin; but, having carefully done so, execute with vigour.
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By union the smallest states thrive. By discord the greatest are destroyed.
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Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.
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Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master.
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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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A good man prefers to suffer rather than overcome injustice with evil.
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It is better to use fair means and fail, than foul and conquer.
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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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It is sweet to surve one country by deeds, and it is not absurd to surve her by words.
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