Prosperity tries the souls even of the wise.
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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Enough words, little wisdom.
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Greedy for the property of others, extravagant with his own
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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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To hope for safety in flight, when you have turned away from the enemy the arms by which the body is defended, is indeed madness. In battle those who are most afraid are always in most danger; but courage is equivalent to rampart.
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The higher your station, the less your liberty.
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To desire the same things and to reject the same things, constitutes true friendship.
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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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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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The very life which we enjoy is short.
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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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Harmony makes small things grow; lack of it makes great things decay.
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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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It is always easy to begin a war, but very difficult to stop one.
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The man who is roused neither by glory nor by danger it is in vain to exhort; terror closes the ears of the mind.
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The glory of wealth and of beauty is fleeting and frail; virtue is illustrious and everlasting.
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