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.
SALLUSTIt is better to use fair means and fail, than foul and conquer.
More Sallust Quotes
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The poorest of men are the most useful to those seeking power.
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Enough words, little wisdom.
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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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A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
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The higher your station, the less your liberty.
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The very life which we enjoy is short.
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All who consult on doubtful matters, should be void of hatred, friendship, anger, and pity.
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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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Ambition drove many men to become false; to have one thought locked in the breast, another ready on the tongue.
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All men who would surpass the other animals should do their best not to pass through life silently like the beasts whom nature made prone, obedient to their bellies.
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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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The renown which riches or beauty confer is fleeting and frail mental excellence is a splendid and lasting possession.
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Small communities grow great through harmony, great ones fall to pieces through discord.
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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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The glory of wealth and of beauty is fleeting and frail; virtue is illustrious and everlasting.
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