Every bad precedent originated as a justifiable measure.
SALLUSTAll who consult on doubtful matters, should be void of hatred, friendship, anger, and pity.
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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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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Do as much as possible, and talk of yourself as little as possible.
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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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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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For harmony makes small states great, while discord undermines the mightiest empires.
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One can ever assume to be what he is not, and to conceal what he is.
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Get good counsel before you begin; and when you have decided, act promptly.
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We employ the mind to rule, the body to serve.
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To desire the same things and to reject the same things, constitutes true friendship.
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By the wicked the good conduct of others is always dreaded.
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The glory of riches and of beauty is frail and transitory; virtue remains bright and eternal.
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Each man the architect of his own fate.
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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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Harmony makes small things grow; lack of it makes great things decay.
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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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The Gods being good and making all things, there is no positive evil, it only comes by absence of good; just as darkness itself does not exist, but only comes about by absence of light.
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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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Greedy for the property of others, extravagant with his own
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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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In victory even the cowardly like to boast, while in adverse times even the brave are discredited.
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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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Small endeavours obtain strength by unity of action: the most powerful are broken down by discord.
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Deliberate before you begin; but, having carefully done so, execute with vigour.
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Advise well before you begin, and when you have maturely considered, then act with promptitude.
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The poorest of men are the most useful to those seeking power.
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