Each man the architect of his own fate.
SALLUSTThose most moved to tears by every word of a preacher are generally weak and a rascal when the feelings evaporate.
More Sallust Quotes
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To hope for safety in flight, when you have turned away from the enemy the arms by which the body is defended, is indeed madness. In battle those who are most afraid are always in most danger; but courage is equivalent to rampart.
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No grief reaches the dead.
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Among intellectual pursuits, one of the most useful is the recording of past events.
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In victory even the cowardly like to boast, while in adverse times even the brave are discredited.
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Every bad precedent originated as a justifiable measure.
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There were few who preferred honor to money.
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Small endeavours obtain strength by unity of action: the most powerful are broken down by discord.
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To someone seeking power, the poorest man is the most useful.
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Just to stir things up seemed a great reward in itself.
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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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The glory of wealth and of beauty is fleeting and frail; virtue is illustrious and everlasting.
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The Gods being good and making all things, there is no positive evil, it only comes by absence of good; just as darkness itself does not exist, but only comes about by absence of light.
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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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It is always easy to begin a war, but very difficult to stop one.
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It is better to use fair means and fail, than foul and conquer.
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Neither the army nor the treasury, but friends, are the true supports of the throne; for friends cannot be collected by force of arms, nor purchased with money; they are the offspring of kindness and sincerity.
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One can ever assume to be what he is not, and to conceal what he is.
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Small communities grow great through harmony, great ones fall to pieces through discord.
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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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But the case has proved that to be true which Appius says in his songs, that each man is the maker of his own fate.
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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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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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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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To have the same desires and the same aversion is assuredly a firm bond of friendship.
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Advise well before you begin, and when you have maturely considered, then act with promptitude.
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Neither soldiers nor money can defend a king but only friends won by good deeds, merit, and honesty.
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