Fame is the shadow of passion standing in the light.
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 riches and of beauty is frail and transitory; virtue remains bright and eternal.
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Harmony makes small things grow; lack of it makes great things decay.
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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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Fortune rules in all things, and advances and depresses things more out of her own will than right and justice.
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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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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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Poor Britons, there is some good in them after all – they produced an oyster.
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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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No grief reaches the dead.
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Those most moved to tears by every word of a preacher are generally weak and a rascal when the feelings evaporate.
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The firmest friendship is based on an identity of likes and dislikes.
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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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To desire the same things and to reject the same things, constitutes true friendship.
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The fame which is based on wealth or beauty is a frail and fleeting thing; but virtue shines for ages with undiminished lustre.
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