By the wicked the good conduct of others is always dreaded.
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 firmest friendship is based on an identity of likes and dislikes.
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The soul is the captain and ruler of the life of morals.
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Get good counsel before you begin; and when you have decided, act promptly.
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Poor Britons, there is some good in them after all – they produced an oyster.
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Small communities grow great through harmony, great ones fall to pieces through discord.
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Small endeavours obtain strength by unity of action: the most powerful are broken down by discord.
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Neither soldiers nor money can defend a king but only friends won by good deeds, merit, and honesty.
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Do as much as possible, and talk of yourself as little as possible.
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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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It is always easy to begin a war, but very difficult to stop one.
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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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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 at power or wealth, for the sake of which wars, and all kinds of strife, arise among mankind, we do not aim; we desire only our liberty, which no honorable man relinquishes but with his life.
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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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The glory of wealth and of beauty is fleeting and frail; virtue is illustrious and everlasting.
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