In my opinion it is less shameful for a king to be overcome by force of arms than by bribery.
SALLUSTThe higher your station, the less your liberty.
More Sallust Quotes
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In my own case, who have spent my whole life in the practice of virtue, right conduct from habitual has become natural.
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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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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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Everything that rises sets, and everything that grows, grows old.
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Greedy for the property of others, extravagant with his own
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He that will be angry for anything will be angry for nothing.
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When the prizes fall to the lot of the wicked, you will not find many who are virtuous for virtue’s sake.
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Enough words, little wisdom.
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It is better to use fair means and fail, than foul and conquer.
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It is a law of human nature that in victory even the coward may boast of his prowess, while defeat injures the reputation even of the brave.
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Get good counsel before you begin; and when you have decided, act promptly.
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To desire the same things and to reject the same things, constitutes true friendship.
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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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A good man prefers to suffer rather than overcome injustice with evil.
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The very life which we enjoy is short.
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