But the case has proved that to be true which Appius says in his songs, that each man is the maker of his own fate.
SALLUSTAdvise well before you begin, and when you have maturely considered, then act with promptitude.
More Sallust Quotes
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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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Prosperity tries the souls even of the wise.
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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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Every bad precedent originated as a justifiable measure.
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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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To desire the same things and to reject the same things, constitutes true friendship.
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It is always easy enough to take up arms, but very difficult to lay them down; the commencement and the termination of war are not necessarily in the same hands; even a coward may begin, but the end comes only when the victors are willing.
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To like and dislike the same things that is indeed true friendship.
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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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Greedy for the property of others, extravagant with his own
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Do as much as possible, and talk of yourself as little as possible.
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The Romans assisted their allies and friends, and acquired friendships by giving rather than receiving kindness.
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As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.
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The very life which we enjoy is short.
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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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