The soul is the captain and ruler of the life of morals.
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Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.
More Sallust Quotes
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The soul is the captain and ruler of the life of morals.
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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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Do as much as possible, and talk of yourself as little as possible.
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The Gods being good and making all things, there is no positive evil, it only comes by absence of good; just as darkness itself does not exist, but only comes about by absence of light.
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No grief reaches the dead.
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Each man the architect of his own fate.
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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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The Romans assisted their allies and friends, and acquired friendships by giving rather than receiving kindness.
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To desire the same things and to reject the same things, constitutes true friendship.
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A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
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There were few who preferred honor to money.
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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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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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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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In victory even the cowardly like to boast, while in adverse times even the brave are discredited.
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Harmony makes small things grow; lack of it makes great things decay.
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