By union the smallest states thrive. By discord the greatest are destroyed.
SALLUSTBut the case has proved that to be true which Appius says in his songs, that each man is the maker of his own fate.
More Sallust Quotes
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Just to stir things up seemed a great reward in itself.
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All who consult on doubtful matters, should be void of hatred, friendship, anger, and pity.
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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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No grief reaches the dead.
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To someone seeking power, the poorest man is the most useful.
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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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It is sweet to surve one country by deeds, and it is not absurd to surve her by words.
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Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master.
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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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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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The fame which is based on wealth or beauty is a frail and fleeting thing; but virtue shines for ages with undiminished lustre.
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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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Everything that rises sets, and everything that grows, grows old.
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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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Small communities grow great through harmony, great ones fall to pieces through discord.
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