In victory even the cowardly like to boast, while in adverse times even the brave are discredited.
SALLUSTIt is always easy to begin a war, but very difficult to stop one.
More Sallust Quotes
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All who consult on doubtful matters, should be void of hatred, friendship, anger, and pity.
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Ambition breaks the ties of blood, and forgets the obligations of gratitude.
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A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
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To like and dislike the same things that is indeed true friendship.
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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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Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.
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Deliberate before you begin; but, having carefully done so, execute with vigour.
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Those most moved to tears by every word of a preacher are generally weak and a rascal when the feelings evaporate.
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Small communities grow great through harmony, great ones fall to pieces through discord.
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One can ever assume to be what he is not, and to conceal what he is.
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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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Every bad precedent originated as a justifiable measure.
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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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Kings are more prone to mistrust the good than the bad; and they are always afraid of the virtues of others.
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It is better to use fair means and fail, than foul and conquer.
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