We employ the mind to rule, the body to serve.
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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It is always easy enough to take up arms, but very difficult to lay them down; the commencement and the termination of war are not necessarily in the same hands; even a coward may begin, but the end comes only when the victors are willing.
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Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.
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Prosperity tries the souls even of the wise.
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Just to stir things up seemed a great reward in itself.
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Get good counsel before you begin; and when you have decided, act promptly.
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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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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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Fortune rules in all things, and advances and depresses things more out of her own will than right and justice.
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In battle it is the cowards who run the most risk; bravery is a rampart of defense.
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In my opinion it is less shameful for a king to be overcome by force of arms than by bribery.
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He that will be angry for anything will be angry for nothing.
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Every bad precedent originated as a justifiable measure.
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For men who had easily endured hardship, danger and difficult uncertainty, leisure and riches, though in some ways desirable, proved burdensome and a source of grief.
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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 glory of wealth and of beauty is fleeting and frail; virtue is illustrious and everlasting.
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