For men who had easily endured hardship, danger and difficult uncertainty, leisure and riches, though in some ways desirable, proved burdensome and a source of grief.
SALLUSTKings are more prone to mistrust the good than the bad; and they are always afraid of the virtues of others.
More Sallust Quotes
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The firmest friendship is based on an identity of likes and dislikes.
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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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Prosperity tries the souls even of the wise.
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Everything that rises sets, and everything that grows, grows old.
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There were few who preferred honor to money.
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Advise well before you begin, and when you have maturely considered, then act with promptitude.
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Poor Britons, there is some good in them after all – they produced an oyster.
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No grief reaches the dead.
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A good man prefers to suffer rather than overcome injustice with evil.
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It is always easy to begin a war, but very difficult to stop one.
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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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Do as much as possible, and talk of yourself as little as possible.
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No mortal man has ever served at the same time his passions and his best interests.
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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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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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