The soul is the captain and ruler of the life of morals.
SALLUST
Greedy for the property of others, extravagant with his own
More Sallust Quotes
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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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In my opinion it is less shameful for a king to be overcome by force of arms than by bribery.
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As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.
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There were few who preferred honor to money.
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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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For 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.
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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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Each man the architect of his own fate.
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No man underestimates the wrongs he suffers; many take them more seriously than is right.
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For harmony makes small states great, while discord undermines the mightiest empires.
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Fame is the shadow of passion standing in the light.
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Of the bodies in the cosmos, some imitate mind and move in orbits; some imitate soul and move in a straight line, fire and air upward, earth and water downward.
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One can ever assume to be what he is not, and to conceal what he is.
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