Do as much as possible, and talk of yourself as little as possible.
SALLUSTEverything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.
More Sallust Quotes
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To hope for safety in flight, when you have turned away from the enemy the arms by which the body is defended, is indeed madness. In battle those who are most afraid are always in most danger; but courage is equivalent to rampart.
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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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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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Enough words, little wisdom.
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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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But few prize honour more than money.
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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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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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Most honorable are services rendered to the State; even if they do not go beyond words, they are not to be despised.
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But the case has proved that to be true which Appius says in his songs, that each man is the maker of his own fate.
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It is better to use fair means and fail, than foul and conquer.
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It is always easy to begin a war, but very difficult to stop one.
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To have the same desires and the same aversion is assuredly a firm bond of friendship.
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The soul is the captain and ruler of the life of morals.
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The glory of wealth and of beauty is fleeting and frail; virtue is illustrious and everlasting.
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