Poor Britons, there is some good in them after all – they produced an oyster.
SALLUSTNot by vows nor by womanish prayers is the help of the gods obtained; success comes through vigilance, energy, wise counsel.
More Sallust Quotes
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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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The glory of wealth and of beauty is fleeting and frail; virtue is illustrious and everlasting.
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As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.
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One can ever assume to be what he is not, and to conceal what he is.
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To desire the same things and to reject the same things, constitutes true friendship.
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Among intellectual pursuits, one of the most useful is the recording of past events.
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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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Before you act consider; when you have considered, tis fully time to act.
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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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It is always easy to begin a war, but very difficult to stop one.
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But few prize honour more than money.
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A good man prefers to suffer rather than overcome injustice with evil.
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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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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 riches and of beauty is frail and transitory; virtue remains bright and eternal.
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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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By the wicked the good conduct of others is always dreaded.
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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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Necessity makes even the timid brave.
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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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To someone seeking power, the poorest man is the most useful.
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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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The renown which riches or beauty confer is fleeting and frail mental excellence is a splendid and lasting possession.
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Small endeavours obtain strength by unity of action: the most powerful are broken down by discord.
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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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All persons who are enthusiastic that they should transcend the other animals ought to strive with the utmost effort not to pass through a life of silence, like cattle, which nature has fashioned to be prone and obedient to their stomachs.
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