By the wicked the good conduct of others is always dreaded.
SALLUSTIn my own case, who have spent my whole life in the practice of virtue, right conduct from habitual has become natural.
More Sallust Quotes
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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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Small endeavours obtain strength by unity of action: the most powerful are broken down by discord.
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No mortal man has ever served at the same time his passions and his best interests.
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A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
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We employ the mind to rule, the body to serve.
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A good man prefers to suffer rather than overcome injustice with evil.
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To have the same desires and the same aversion is assuredly a firm bond of friendship.
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Not by vows nor by womanish prayers is the help of the gods obtained; success comes through vigilance, energy, wise counsel.
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Fame is the shadow of passion standing in the light.
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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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Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master.
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Most honorable are services rendered to the State; even if they do not go beyond words, they are not to be despised.
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Enough words, little wisdom.
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He that will be angry for anything will be angry for nothing.
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Advise well before you begin, and when you have maturely considered, then act with promptitude.
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