Among intellectual pursuits, one of the most useful is the recording of past events.
SALLUSTBy union the smallest states thrive. By discord the greatest are destroyed.
More Sallust Quotes
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To desire the same things and to reject the same things, constitutes true friendship.
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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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Necessity makes even the timid brave.
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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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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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One can ever assume to be what he is not, and to conceal what he is.
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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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Fortune rules in all things, and advances and depresses things more out of her own will than right and justice.
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Before you act consider; when you have considered, tis fully time to act.
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Ambition breaks the ties of blood, and forgets the obligations of gratitude.
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The firmest friendship is based on an identity of likes and dislikes.
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Fame is the shadow of passion standing in the light.
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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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Ambition drove many men to become false; to have one thought locked in the breast, another ready on the tongue.
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He that will be angry for anything will be angry for nothing.
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