A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
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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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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It is sweet to surve one country by deeds, and it is not absurd to surve her by words.
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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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Harmony makes small things grow; lack of it makes great things decay.
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They envy the distinction I have won; let them therefore, envy my toils, my honesty, and the methods by which I gained it.
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He that will be angry for anything will be angry for nothing.
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It 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.
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The soul is the captain and ruler of the life of morals.
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But the case has proved that to be true which Appius says in his songs, that each man is the maker of his own fate.
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But assuredly Fortune rules in all things; she raised to eminence or buries in oblivion everything from caprice rather than from well-regulated principle.
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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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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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Each man the architect of his own fate.
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Enough words, little wisdom.
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Neither soldiers nor money can defend a king but only friends won by good deeds, merit, and honesty.
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