Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.
SALLUSTProsperity tries the souls even of the wise.
More Sallust Quotes
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Before you act consider; when you have considered, tis fully time to act.
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Harmony makes small things grow; lack of it makes great things decay.
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Not by vows nor by womanish prayers is the help of the gods obtained; success comes through vigilance, energy, wise counsel.
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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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Ambition drove many men to become false; to have one thought locked in the breast, another ready on the tongue.
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The firmest friendship is based on an identity of likes and dislikes.
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It is always easy enough to take up arms, but very difficult to lay them down; the commencement and the termination of war are not necessarily in the same hands; even a coward may begin, but the end comes only when the victors are willing.
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He that will be angry for anything will be angry for nothing.
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No mortal man has ever served at the same time his passions and his best interests.
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Everything that rises sets, and everything that grows, grows old.
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Distinguished ancestors shed a powerful light on their descendants, and forbid the concealment either of their merits or of their demerits.
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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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Just to stir things up seemed a great reward in itself.
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The renown which riches or beauty confer is fleeting and frail mental excellence is a splendid and lasting possession.
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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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