The soul is the captain and ruler of the life of morals.
SALLUSTThe glory of wealth and of beauty is fleeting and frail; virtue is illustrious and everlasting.
More Sallust Quotes
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It is a law of human nature that in victory even the coward may boast of his prowess, while defeat injures the reputation even of the brave.
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When the prizes fall to the lot of the wicked, you will not find many who are virtuous for virtue’s sake.
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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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The poorest of men are the most useful to those seeking power.
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Each man the architect of his own fate.
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Fame is the shadow of passion standing in the light.
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Since we have received everything from the Gods, and it is right to pay the giver some tithe of his gifts, we pay such a tithe of possessions in votive offering, of bodies in gifts of (hair and) adornment, and of life in sacrifices.
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For harmony makes small states great, while discord undermines the mightiest empires.
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Necessity makes even the timid brave.
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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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It is sweet to surve one country by deeds, and it is not absurd to surve her by words.
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The fame that goes with wealth and beauty is fleeting and fragile; intellectual superiority is a possession glorious and eternal.
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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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Poor Britons, there is some good in them after all – they produced an oyster.
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But at power or wealth, for the sake of which wars, and all kinds of strife, arise among mankind, we do not aim; we desire only our liberty, which no honorable man relinquishes but with his life.
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Most honorable are services rendered to the State; even if they do not go beyond words, they are not to be despised.
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The glory of wealth and of beauty is fleeting and frail; virtue is illustrious and everlasting.
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By the wicked the good conduct of others is always dreaded.
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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 man who is roused neither by glory nor by danger it is in vain to exhort; terror closes the ears of the mind.
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Get good counsel before you begin; and when you have decided, act promptly.
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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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Just to stir things up seemed a great reward in itself.
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Before you act consider; when you have considered, tis fully time to act.
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A good man prefers to suffer rather than overcome injustice with evil.
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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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