Most honorable are services rendered to the State; even if they do not go beyond words, they are not to be despised.
SALLUSTThe poorest of men are the most useful to those seeking power.
More Sallust Quotes
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In battle it is the cowards who run the most risk; bravery is a rampart of defense.
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Neither soldiers nor money can defend a king but only friends won by good deeds, merit, and honesty.
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Necessity makes even the timid brave.
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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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Poor Britons, there is some good in them after all – they produced an oyster.
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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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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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Distinguished ancestors shed a powerful light on their descendants, and forbid the concealment either of their merits or of their demerits.
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Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master.
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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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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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No man underestimates the wrongs he suffers; many take them more seriously than is right.
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The higher your station, the less your liberty.
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A good man prefers to suffer rather than overcome injustice with evil.
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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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To 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.
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Everything that rises sets, and everything that grows, grows old.
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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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Enough words, little wisdom.
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Prosperity tries the souls even of the wise.
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They envy the distinction I have won; let them therefore, envy my toils, my honesty, and the methods by which I gained it.
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Harmony makes small things grow; lack of it makes great things 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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To someone seeking power, the poorest man is the most useful.
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Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.
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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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