Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.
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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Each man the architect of his own fate.
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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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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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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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Before you act consider; when you have considered, tis fully time to act.
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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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Neither the army nor the treasury, but friends, are the true supports of the throne; for friends cannot be collected by force of arms, nor purchased with money; they are the offspring of kindness and sincerity.
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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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Poor Britons, there is some good in them after all – they produced an oyster.
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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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The renown which riches or beauty confer is fleeting and frail mental excellence is a splendid and lasting possession.
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When the prizes fall to the lot of the wicked, you will not find many who are virtuous for virtue’s sake.
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Fame is the shadow of passion standing in the light.
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Advise well before you begin, and when you have maturely considered, then act with promptitude.
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Deliberate before you begin; but, having carefully done so, execute with vigour.
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