It is sweet to surve one country by deeds, and it is not absurd to surve her by words.
SALLUSTAll 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.
More Sallust Quotes
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The very life which we enjoy is short.
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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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Before you act consider; when you have considered, tis fully time to act.
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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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Kings are more prone to mistrust the good than the bad; and they are always afraid of the virtues of others.
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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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It is better to use fair means and fail, than foul and conquer.
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Every bad precedent originated as a justifiable measure.
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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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The glory of ancestors sheds a light around posterity; it allows neither good nor bad qualities to remain in obscurity.
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Of the cosmic Gods some make the world be, others animate it, others harmonize it, consisting as it does of different elements; the fourth class keep it when harmonized.
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In battle it is the cowards who run the most risk; bravery is a rampart of defense.
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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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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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The fame that goes with wealth and beauty is fleeting and fragile; intellectual superiority is a possession glorious and eternal.
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