Neither soldiers nor money can defend a king but only friends won by good deeds, merit, and honesty.
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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No grief reaches the dead.
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A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
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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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Everything that rises sets, and everything that grows, grows old.
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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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Fame is the shadow of passion standing in the light.
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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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But few prize honour more than money.
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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.
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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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Enough words, little wisdom.
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The man who is roused neither by glory nor by danger it is in vain to exhort; terror closes the ears of the mind.
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Deliberate before you begin; but, having carefully done so, execute with vigour.
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Poor Britons, there is some good in them after all – they produced an oyster.
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Ambition breaks the ties of blood, and forgets the obligations of gratitude.
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