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.
SALLUSTBut few prize honour more than money.
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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Fame is the shadow of passion standing in the light.
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In victory even the cowardly like to boast, while in adverse times even the brave are discredited.
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Enough words, little wisdom.
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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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The higher your station, the less your liberty.
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But at power or wealth, for the sake of which wars, and all kinds of strife, arise among mankind, we do not aim; we desire only our liberty, which no honorable man relinquishes but with his life.
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To have the same desires and the same aversion is assuredly a firm bond of friendship.
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Each man the architect of his own fate.
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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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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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In battle it is the cowards who run the most risk; bravery is a rampart of defense.
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But few prize honour more than money.
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Prosperity tries the souls even of the wise.
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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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