Greedy for the property of others, extravagant with his own
SALLUSTThe poorest of men are the most useful to those seeking power.
More Sallust Quotes
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The Romans assisted their allies and friends, and acquired friendships by giving rather than receiving kindness.
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When the prizes fall to the lot of the wicked, you will not find many who are virtuous for virtue’s sake.
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To like and dislike the same things that is indeed true friendship.
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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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The very life which we enjoy is short.
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Poor Britons, there is some good in them after all – they produced an oyster.
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Everything destroyed is either resolved into the elements from which it came, or else vanishes into not-being. If things are resolved into the elements from which they came, then there will be others: else how did they come into being at all?
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Small communities grow great through harmony, great ones fall to pieces through discord.
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Just to stir things up seemed a great reward in itself.
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To desire the same things and to reject the same things, constitutes true friendship.
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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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Ambition drove many men to become false; to have one thought locked in the breast, another ready on the tongue.
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There were few who preferred honor to money.
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No mortal man has ever served at the same time his passions and his best interests.
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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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