Just to stir things up seemed a great reward in itself.
SALLUSTTo have the same desires and the same aversion is assuredly a firm bond of friendship.
More Sallust Quotes
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There were few who preferred honor to money.
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Greedy for the property of others, extravagant with his own
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The very life which we enjoy is short.
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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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A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
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Necessity makes even the timid brave.
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The higher your station, the less your liberty.
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The renown which riches or beauty confer is fleeting and frail mental excellence is a splendid and lasting possession.
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All who consult on doubtful matters, should be void of hatred, friendship, anger, and pity.
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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.
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The glory of wealth and of beauty is fleeting and frail; virtue is illustrious and everlasting.
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In my own case, who have spent my whole life in the practice of virtue, right conduct from habitual has become natural.
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Before you act consider; when you have considered, tis fully time to act.
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It is sweet to surve one country by deeds, and it is not absurd to surve her by words.
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Those most moved to tears by every word of a preacher are generally weak and a rascal when the feelings evaporate.
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It is always easy to begin a war, but very difficult to stop one.
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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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It is always easy enough to take up arms, but very difficult to lay them down; the commencement and the termination of war are not necessarily in the same hands; even a coward may begin, but the end comes only when the victors are willing.
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They envy the distinction I have won; let them therefore, envy my toils, my honesty, and the methods by which I gained it.
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Poor Britons, there is some good in them after all – they produced an oyster.
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He that will be angry for anything will be angry for nothing.
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Prosperity tries the souls even of the wise.
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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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In my opinion it is less shameful for a king to be overcome by force of arms than by bribery.
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Every bad precedent originated as a justifiable measure.
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