The glory of ancestors sheds a light around posterity; it allows neither good nor bad qualities to remain in obscurity.
SALLUSTThe glory of riches and of beauty is frail and transitory; virtue remains bright and eternal.
More Sallust Quotes
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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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No man underestimates the wrongs he suffers; many take them more seriously than is right.
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Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.
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The higher your station, the less your liberty.
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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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Fame is the shadow of passion standing in the light.
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Necessity makes even the timid brave.
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The Romans assisted their allies and friends, and acquired friendships by giving rather than receiving kindness.
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To someone seeking power, the poorest man is the most useful.
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It is always easy to begin a war, but very difficult to stop one.
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To desire the same things and to reject the same things, constitutes true friendship.
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Just to stir things up seemed a great reward in itself.
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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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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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Greedy for the property of others, extravagant with his own
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