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Sallust90 quotes“Everything that rises sets, and everything that grows, grows old.”
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By union the smallest states thrive. By discord the greatest are destroyed.
SallustSallust Just to stir things up seemed a great reward in itself.
SallustSallust All who consult on doubtful matters, should be void of hatred, friendship, anger, and pity.
SallustSallust When the prizes fall to the lot of the wicked, you will not find many who are virtuous for virtue’s sake.
SallustSallust By the wicked the good conduct of others is always dreaded.
SallustSallust Deliberate before you begin; but, having carefully done so, execute with vigour.
SallustSallust The glory of wealth and of beauty is fleeting and frail; virtue is illustrious and everlasting.
SallustSallust 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.
SallustSallust 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.
SallustSallust The fame that goes with wealth and beauty is fleeting and fragile; intellectual superiority is a possession glorious and eternal.
SallustSallust It is always easy to begin a war, but very difficult to stop one.
SallustSallust There were few who preferred honor to money.
SallustSallust The firmest friendship is based on an identity of likes and dislikes.
SallustSallust Each man the architect of his own fate.
SallustSallust Small communities grow great through harmony, great ones fall to pieces through discord.
SallustSallust Fame is the shadow of passion standing in the light.
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Thoughts on a tapestry. Colour or black and white. A brush, a pen, A flash of light. Ideas flowing soon, about to take flight.
Gerard GleesonGerard Gleeson Like deep water, she was silent. His lips tasted of salt. He was both addicting and bitter all at once.
MoomerMoomer Always show kindness and love to others. Your words might be filling the empty places in someone else heart.
Alexander KandovAlexander Kandov And I would lie on your chest for hours and dream about the world in your arms but your thoughts were in another world.
Ani ShahverdyanAni Shahverdyan Your smile and your laughter lit my whole world.
Ranata SuzukiRanata Suzuki Often all we can do is breathe, even that can be hard sometimes.
Julia Kellogg HenryJulia Kellogg Henry I am addicted to your madness drunk on your toxic love. Infect me with your poison, lets make storms rage above.
Laura Natoli-KearneyLaura Natoli-Kearney The more you fail, recover, and improve, the better you are as a person.
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I am more powerful than I am damaged and I will rise from any abyss you drown me in.
Nikita GillNikita Gill Look to the past and remember no empire rises that sooner or later won’t fall.
Al StewartAl Stewart Women are rising. And I think that’s all the violence and war – it could be the last gasp of the patriarchy, actually.
Jane FondaJane Fonda Only cream and SOBs rise to the top.
Al NeuharthAl Neuharth A monarch should be ever intent on conquest, lest his neighbours rise in arms against him.
AkbarAkbar It is the power of memory that gives rise to the power of imagination.
Akira KurosawaAkira Kurosawa Don’t be attached to visions or lights in meditation, don’t rise or fall with them.
Ajahn ChahAjahn Chah Therefore the doubts which have arisen in your heart out of ignorance should be slashed by the weapon of knowledge.
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