The Romans assisted their allies and friends, and acquired friendships by giving rather than receiving kindness.
SALLUSTThe Romans assisted their allies and friends, and acquired friendships by giving rather than receiving kindness.
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But at power or wealth, for the sake of which wars, and all kinds of strife, arise among mankind, we do not aim; we desire only our liberty, which no honorable man relinquishes but with his life.
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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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It is sweet to surve one country by deeds, and it is not absurd to surve her by words.
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Just to stir things up seemed a great reward in itself.
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It is impossible that there should be so much providence in the last details, and none in the first principles. Then the arts of prophecy and of healing, which are part of the cosmos, come of the good providence of the Gods.
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Ambition breaks the ties of blood, and forgets the obligations of gratitude.
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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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It is always easy enough to take up arms, but very difficult to lay them down; the commencement and the termination of war are not necessarily in the same hands; even a coward may begin, but the end comes only when the victors are willing.
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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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The glory of riches and of beauty is frail and transitory; virtue remains bright and eternal.
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Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.
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Sovereignty is easily preserved by the very arts by which it was originally created. When, however, energy has given place to indifference, and temperance and justice to passion and arrogance, then as the morals change so changes fortune.
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Prosperity tries the souls even of the wise.
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Everything that rises sets, and everything that grows, grows old.
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Fame is the shadow of passion standing in the light.
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