Distinguished ancestors shed a powerful light on their descendants, and forbid the concealment either of their merits or of their demerits.
SALLUSTAll persons who are enthusiastic that they should transcend the other animals ought to strive with the utmost effort not to pass through a life of silence, like cattle, which nature has fashioned to be prone and obedient to their stomachs.
More Sallust Quotes
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Small endeavours obtain strength by unity of action: the most powerful are broken down by discord.
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We employ the mind to rule, the body to serve.
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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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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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In battle it is the cowards who run the most risk; bravery is a rampart of defense.
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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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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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It is sweet to surve one country by deeds, and it is not absurd to surve her by words.
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Fame is the shadow of passion standing in the light.
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The fame which is based on wealth or beauty is a frail and fleeting thing; but virtue shines for ages with undiminished lustre.
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It is always easy to begin a war, but very difficult to stop one.
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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 better to use fair means and fail, than foul and conquer.
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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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