The glory of riches and of beauty is frail and transitory; virtue remains bright and eternal.
SALLUSTFor men who had easily endured hardship, danger and difficult uncertainty, leisure and riches, though in some ways desirable, proved burdensome and a source of grief.
More Sallust Quotes
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The glory of ancestors sheds a light around posterity; it allows neither good nor bad qualities to remain in obscurity.
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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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He that will be angry for anything will be angry for nothing.
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All those who offer an opinion on any doubtful point should first clear their minds of every sentiment of dislike, friendship, anger or pity.
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We employ the mind to rule, the body to serve.
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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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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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Neither soldiers nor money can defend a king but only friends won by good deeds, merit, and honesty.
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No grief reaches the dead.
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One can ever assume to be what he is not, and to conceal what he is.
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Neither the army nor the treasury, but friends, are the true supports of the throne; for friends cannot be collected by force of arms, nor purchased with money; they are the offspring of kindness and sincerity.
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For harmony makes small states great, while discord undermines the mightiest empires.
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Harmony makes small things grow; lack of it makes great things decay.
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But few prize honour more than money.
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To like and dislike the same things that is indeed true friendship.
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