Every bad precedent originated as a justifiable measure.
SALLUSTIn victory even the cowardly like to boast, while in adverse times even the brave are discredited.
More Sallust Quotes
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Harmony makes small things grow; lack of it makes great things decay.
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Among intellectual pursuits, one of the most useful is the recording of past events.
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The glory of riches and of beauty is frail and transitory; virtue remains bright and eternal.
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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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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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Advise well before you begin, and when you have maturely considered, then act with promptitude.
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It is always easy to begin a war, but very difficult to stop one.
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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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It is sweet to surve one country by deeds, and it is not absurd to surve her by words.
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It is a law of human nature that in victory even the coward may boast of his prowess, while defeat injures the reputation even of the brave.
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By the wicked the good conduct of others is always dreaded.
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The soul is the captain and ruler of the life of morals.
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In my opinion it is less shameful for a king to be overcome by force of arms than by bribery.
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Of the bodies in the cosmos, some imitate mind and move in orbits; some imitate soul and move in a straight line, fire and air upward, earth and water downward.
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Deliberate before you begin; but, having carefully done so, execute with vigour.
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