The higher your station, the less your liberty.
SALLUSTThe soul is the captain and ruler of the life of morals.
More Sallust Quotes
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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 like and dislike the same things that is indeed true friendship.
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To hope for safety in flight, when you have turned away from the enemy the arms by which the body is defended, is indeed madness. In battle those who are most afraid are always in most danger; but courage is equivalent to rampart.
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Kings are more prone to mistrust the good than the bad; and they are always afraid of the virtues of others.
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Prosperity tries the souls even of the wise.
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Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.
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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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But the case has proved that to be true which Appius says in his songs, that each man is the maker of his own fate.
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The glory of wealth and of beauty is fleeting and frail; virtue is illustrious and everlasting.
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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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No mortal man has ever served at the same time his passions and his best interests.
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To someone seeking power, the poorest man is the most useful.
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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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It is sweet to surve one country by deeds, and it is not absurd to surve her by words.
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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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It is better to use fair means and fail, than foul and conquer.
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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.
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Enough words, little wisdom.
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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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The firmest friendship is based on an identity of likes and dislikes.
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Every bad precedent originated as a justifiable measure.
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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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By the wicked the good conduct of others is always dreaded.
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Necessity makes even the timid brave.
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Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master.
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