When the prizes fall to the lot of the wicked, you will not find many who are virtuous for virtue’s sake.
SALLUSTIt 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.
More Sallust Quotes
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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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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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To have the same desires and the same aversion is assuredly a firm bond of friendship.
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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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Everything that rises sets, and everything that grows, grows old.
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Harmony makes small things grow; lack of it makes great things decay.
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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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No grief reaches the dead.
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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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Not by vows nor by womanish prayers is the help of the gods obtained; success comes through vigilance, energy, wise counsel.
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In my opinion it is less shameful for a king to be overcome by force of arms than by bribery.
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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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Ambition breaks the ties of blood, and forgets the obligations of gratitude.
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All those who offer an opinion on any doubtful point should first clear their minds of every sentiment of dislike, friendship, anger or pity.
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It is impossible that there should be so much providence in the last details, and none in the first principles. Then the arts of prophecy and of healing, which are part of the cosmos, come of the good providence of the Gods.
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