In victory even the cowardly like to boast, while in adverse times even the brave are discredited.
SALLUSTEverything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.
More Sallust Quotes
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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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Necessity makes even the timid brave.
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The glory of riches and of beauty is frail and transitory; virtue remains bright and eternal.
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Ambition breaks the ties of blood, and forgets the obligations of gratitude.
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Just to stir things up seemed a great reward in itself.
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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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Get good counsel before you begin; and when you have decided, act promptly.
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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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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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Poor Britons, there is some good in them after all – they produced an oyster.
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Do as much as possible, and talk of yourself as little as possible.
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It is better to use fair means and fail, than foul and conquer.
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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 very life which we enjoy is short.
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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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