When the prizes fall to the lot of the wicked, you will not find many who are virtuous for virtue’s sake.
SALLUSTIt is better to use fair means and fail, than foul and conquer.
More Sallust Quotes
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Deliberate before you begin; but, having carefully done so, execute with vigour.
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He that will be angry for anything will be angry for nothing.
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Necessity makes even the timid brave.
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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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A good man prefers to suffer rather than overcome injustice with evil.
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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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There were few who preferred honor to money.
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Ambition breaks the ties of blood, and forgets the obligations of gratitude.
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Every bad precedent originated as a justifiable measure.
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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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Greedy for the property of others, extravagant with his own
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Enough words, little wisdom.
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Do as much as possible, and talk of yourself as little as possible.
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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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