Poor Britons, there is some good in them after all – they produced an oyster.
SALLUSTIn battle it is the cowards who run the most risk; bravery is a rampart of defense.
More Sallust Quotes
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Just to stir things up seemed a great reward in itself.
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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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Ambition drove many men to become false; to have one thought locked in the breast, another ready on the tongue.
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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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One can ever assume to be what he is not, and to conceal what he is.
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Get good counsel before you begin; and when you have decided, act promptly.
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But few prize honour more than money.
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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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The fame that goes with wealth and beauty is fleeting and fragile; intellectual superiority is a possession glorious and eternal.
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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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Since we have received everything from the Gods, and it is right to pay the giver some tithe of his gifts, we pay such a tithe of possessions in votive offering, of bodies in gifts of (hair and) adornment, and of life in sacrifices.
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In my opinion, he only may be truly said to live and enjoy his being who is engaged in some laudable pursuit, and acquires a name by some illustrious action, or useful art.
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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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Harmony makes small things grow; lack of it makes great things decay.
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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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Greedy for the property of others, extravagant with his own
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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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Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.
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It 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.
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He that will be angry for anything will be angry for nothing.
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Ambition breaks the ties of blood, and forgets the obligations of gratitude.
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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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Before you act consider; when you have considered, tis fully time to act.
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To have the same desires and the same aversion is assuredly a firm bond of friendship.
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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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Most honorable are services rendered to the State; even if they do not go beyond words, they are not to be despised.
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