Fame is the shadow of passion standing in the light.
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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But the case has proved that to be true which Appius says in his songs, that each man is the maker of his own fate.
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As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.
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The glory of riches and of beauty is frail and transitory; virtue remains bright and eternal.
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Harmony makes small things grow; lack of it makes great things decay.
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Neither soldiers nor money can defend a king but only friends won by good deeds, merit, and honesty.
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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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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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Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.
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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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The man who is roused neither by glory nor by danger it is in vain to exhort; terror closes the ears of the mind.
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Small communities grow great through harmony, great ones fall to pieces through discord.
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Greedy for the property of others, extravagant with his own
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For 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.
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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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One can ever assume to be what he is not, and to conceal what he is.
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