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.
SALLUSTBy union the smallest states thrive. By discord the greatest are destroyed.
More Sallust Quotes
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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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Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.
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Deliberate before you begin; but, having carefully done so, execute with vigour.
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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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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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Ambition drove many men to become false; to have one thought locked in the breast, another ready on the tongue.
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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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Enough words, little wisdom.
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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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No man underestimates the wrongs he suffers; many take them more seriously than is right.
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Ambition breaks the ties of blood, and forgets the obligations of gratitude.
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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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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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The fame that goes with wealth and beauty is fleeting and fragile; intellectual superiority is a possession glorious and eternal.
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