Fame is the shadow of passion standing in the light.
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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In victory even the cowardly like to boast, while in adverse times even the brave are discredited.
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No mortal man has ever served at the same time his passions and his best interests.
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Do as much as possible, and talk of yourself as little as possible.
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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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But assuredly Fortune rules in all things; she raised to eminence or buries in oblivion everything from caprice rather than from well-regulated principle.
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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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No grief reaches the dead.
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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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Get good counsel before you begin; and when you have decided, act promptly.
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To someone seeking power, the poorest man is the most useful.
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The soul is the captain and ruler of the life of morals.
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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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The fame that goes with wealth and beauty is fleeting and fragile; intellectual superiority is a possession glorious and eternal.
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No man underestimates the wrongs he suffers; many take them more seriously than is right.
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They envy the distinction I have won; let them therefore, envy my toils, my honesty, and the methods by which I gained it.
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