Ambition breaks the ties of blood, and forgets the obligations of gratitude.
SALLUSTEach man the architect of his own fate.
More Sallust Quotes
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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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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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By the wicked the good conduct of others is always dreaded.
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Greedy for the property of others, extravagant with his own
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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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Deliberate before you begin; but, having carefully done so, execute with vigour.
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Fame is the shadow of passion standing in the light.
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To someone seeking power, the poorest man is the most useful.
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All men who would surpass the other animals should do their best not to pass through life silently like the beasts whom nature made prone, obedient to their bellies.
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Sovereignty is easily preserved by the very arts by which it was originally created. When, however, energy has given place to indifference, and temperance and justice to passion and arrogance, then as the morals change so changes fortune.
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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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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 glory of wealth and of beauty is fleeting and frail; virtue is illustrious and everlasting.
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No man underestimates the wrongs he suffers; many take them more seriously than is right.
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To have the same desires and the same aversion is assuredly a firm bond of friendship.
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