The firmest friendship is based on an identity of likes and dislikes.
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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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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The poorest of men are the most useful to those seeking power.
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Advise well before you begin, and when you have maturely considered, then act with promptitude.
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We employ the mind to rule, the body to serve.
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One can ever assume to be what he is not, and to conceal what he is.
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A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
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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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The glory of ancestors sheds a light around posterity; it allows neither good nor bad qualities to remain in obscurity.
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They envy the distinction I have won; let them therefore, envy my toils, my honesty, and the methods by which I gained it.
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By union the smallest states thrive. By discord the greatest are destroyed.
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The higher your station, the less your liberty.
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By the wicked the good conduct of others is always dreaded.
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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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But assuredly Fortune rules in all things; she raised to eminence or buries in oblivion everything from caprice rather than from well-regulated principle.
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Everything that rises sets, and everything that grows, grows old.
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