For harmony makes small states great, while discord undermines the mightiest empires.
SALLUSTThe soul is the captain and ruler of the life of morals.
More Sallust Quotes
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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 a law of human nature that in victory even the coward may boast of his prowess, while defeat injures the reputation even of the brave.
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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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The Gods being good and making all things, there is no positive evil, it only comes by absence of good; just as darkness itself does not exist, but only comes about by absence of light.
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No mortal man has ever served at the same time his passions and his best interests.
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Neither the army nor the treasury, but friends, are the true supports of the throne; for friends cannot be collected by force of arms, nor purchased with money; they are the offspring of kindness and sincerity.
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Of the cosmic Gods some make the world be, others animate it, others harmonize it, consisting as it does of different elements; the fourth class keep it when harmonized.
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Before you act consider; when you have considered, tis fully time to act.
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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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A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
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Do as much as possible, and talk of yourself as little as possible.
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All persons who are enthusiastic that they should transcend the other animals ought to strive with the utmost effort not to pass through a life of silence, like cattle, which nature has fashioned to be prone and obedient to their stomachs.
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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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The firmest friendship is based on an identity of likes and dislikes.
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To like and dislike the same things that is indeed true friendship.
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