To like and dislike the same things that is indeed true friendship.
SALLUSTThe poorest of men are the most useful to those seeking power.
More Sallust Quotes
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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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Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.
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No man underestimates the wrongs he suffers; many take them more seriously than is right.
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Greedy for the property of others, extravagant with his own
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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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Each man the architect of his own fate.
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Advise well before you begin, and when you have maturely considered, then act with promptitude.
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Before you act consider; when you have considered, tis fully time to act.
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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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Harmony makes small things grow; lack of it makes great things decay.
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The glory of wealth and of beauty is fleeting and frail; virtue is illustrious and everlasting.
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A good man prefers to suffer rather than overcome injustice with evil.
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Deliberate before you begin; but, having carefully done so, execute with vigour.
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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 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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