Before you act consider; when you have considered, tis fully time to act.
SALLUSTTo 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.
More Sallust Quotes
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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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The renown which riches or beauty confer is fleeting and frail mental excellence is a splendid and lasting possession.
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Deliberate before you begin; but, having carefully done so, execute with vigour.
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Each man the architect of his own fate.
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To desire the same things and to reject the same things, constitutes true friendship.
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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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Kings are more prone to mistrust the good than the bad; and they are always afraid of the virtues of others.
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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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Not by vows nor by womanish prayers is the help of the gods obtained; success comes through vigilance, energy, wise counsel.
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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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Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master.
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By the wicked the good conduct of others is always dreaded.
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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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He that will be angry for anything will be angry for nothing.
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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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