Advise well before you begin, and when you have maturely considered, then act with promptitude.
SALLUSTSmall endeavours obtain strength by unity of action: the most powerful are broken down by discord.
More Sallust Quotes
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Do as much as possible, and talk of yourself as little as possible.
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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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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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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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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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There were few who preferred honor to money.
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All who consult on doubtful matters, should be void of hatred, friendship, anger, and pity.
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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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Before you act consider; when you have considered, tis fully time to act.
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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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The poorest of men are the most useful to those seeking power.
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A good man prefers to suffer rather than overcome injustice with evil.
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Of the cosmic Gods some make the world be, others animate it, others harmonize it, consisting as it does of different elements; the fourth class keep it when harmonized.
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Everything that rises sets, and everything that grows, grows old.
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Small communities grow great through harmony, great ones fall to pieces through discord.
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