We employ the mind to rule, the body to serve.
SALLUSTThe poorest of men are the most useful to those seeking power.
More Sallust Quotes
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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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A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
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No mortal man has ever served at the same time his passions and his best interests.
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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 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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The glory of ancestors sheds a light around posterity; it allows neither good nor bad qualities to remain in obscurity.
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Those most moved to tears by every word of a preacher are generally weak and a rascal when the feelings evaporate.
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The higher your station, the less your liberty.
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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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Advise well before you begin, and when you have maturely considered, then act with promptitude.
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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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A good man prefers to suffer rather than overcome injustice with evil.
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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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It is a law of human nature that in victory even the coward may boast of his prowess, while defeat injures the reputation even of the brave.
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Every bad precedent originated as a justifiable measure.
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