In battle it is the cowards who run the most risk; bravery is a rampart of defense.
SALLUSTBy union the smallest states thrive. By discord the greatest are destroyed.
More Sallust Quotes
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Advise well before you begin, and when you have maturely considered, then act with promptitude.
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In my opinion it is less shameful for a king to be overcome by force of arms than by bribery.
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Before you act consider; when you have considered, tis fully time to act.
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Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master.
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Among intellectual pursuits, one of the most useful is the recording of past events.
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It is always easy to begin a war, but very difficult to stop one.
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Harmony makes small things grow; lack of it makes great things decay.
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Not by vows nor by womanish prayers is the help of the gods obtained; success comes through vigilance, energy, wise counsel.
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It is better to use fair means and fail, than foul and conquer.
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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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All who consult on doubtful matters, should be void of hatred, friendship, anger, and pity.
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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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The glory of ancestors sheds a light around posterity; it allows neither good nor bad qualities to remain in obscurity.
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No mortal man has ever served at the same time his passions and his best interests.
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Ambition drove many men to become false; to have one thought locked in the breast, another ready on the tongue.
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