Everything that rises sets, and everything that grows, grows old.
SALLUSTIn my own case, who have spent my whole life in the practice of virtue, right conduct from habitual has become natural.
More Sallust Quotes
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Among intellectual pursuits, one of the most useful is the recording of past events.
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Prosperity tries the souls even of the wise.
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All who consult on doubtful matters, should be void of hatred, friendship, anger, and pity.
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Most honorable are services rendered to the State; even if they do not go beyond words, they are not to be despised.
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Get good counsel before you begin; and when you have decided, act promptly.
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Since we have received everything from the Gods, and it is right to pay the giver some tithe of his gifts, we pay such a tithe of possessions in votive offering, of bodies in gifts of (hair and) adornment, and of life in sacrifices.
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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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The very life which we enjoy is short.
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There were few who preferred honor to money.
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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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Small communities grow great through harmony, great ones fall to pieces through discord.
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When the prizes fall to the lot of the wicked, you will not find many who are virtuous for virtue’s sake.
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He that will be angry for anything will be angry for nothing.
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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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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 have the same desires and the same aversion is assuredly a firm bond of friendship.
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In my own case, who have spent my whole life in the practice of virtue, right conduct from habitual has become natural.
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But at power or wealth, for the sake of which wars, and all kinds of strife, arise among mankind, we do not aim; we desire only our liberty, which no honorable man relinquishes but with his life.
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We employ the mind to rule, the body to serve.
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To desire the same things and to reject the same things, constitutes true friendship.
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The firmest friendship is based on an identity of likes and dislikes.
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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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A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
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Of the bodies in the cosmos, some imitate mind and move in orbits; some imitate soul and move in a straight line, fire and air upward, earth and water downward.
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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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