Get good counsel before you begin; and when you have decided, act promptly.
SALLUSTIt is impossible that there should be so much providence in the last details, and none in the first principles. Then the arts of prophecy and of healing, which are part of the cosmos, come of the good providence of the Gods.
More Sallust Quotes
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Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.
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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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Before you act consider; when you have considered, tis fully time to act.
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Just to stir things up seemed a great reward in itself.
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All persons who are enthusiastic that they should transcend the other animals ought to strive with the utmost effort not to pass through a life of silence, like cattle, which nature has fashioned to be prone and obedient to their stomachs.
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A good man prefers to suffer rather than overcome injustice with evil.
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He that will be angry for anything will be angry for nothing.
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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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The poorest of men are the most useful to those seeking power.
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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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The renown which riches or beauty confer is fleeting and frail mental excellence is a splendid and lasting possession.
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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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One can ever assume to be what he is not, and to conceal what he is.
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We employ the mind to rule, the body to serve.
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Small endeavours obtain strength by unity of action: the most powerful are broken down by discord.
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