Fame is the shadow of passion standing in the light.
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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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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Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.
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The Romans assisted their allies and friends, and acquired friendships by giving rather than receiving kindness.
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Fortune rules in all things, and advances and depresses things more out of her own will than right and justice.
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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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No grief reaches the dead.
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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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There were few who preferred honor to money.
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A good man prefers to suffer rather than overcome injustice with evil.
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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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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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A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
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Every bad precedent originated as a justifiable measure.
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By union the smallest states thrive. By discord the greatest are destroyed.
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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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