Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master.
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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To have the same desires and the same aversion is assuredly a firm bond of friendship.
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Every bad precedent originated as a justifiable measure.
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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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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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In battle it is the cowards who run the most risk; bravery is a rampart of defense.
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It is impossible that there should be so much providence in the last details, and none in the first principles. Then the arts of prophecy and of healing, which are part of the cosmos, come of the good providence of the Gods.
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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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Get good counsel before you begin; and when you have decided, act promptly.
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The glory of riches and of beauty is frail and transitory; virtue remains bright and eternal.
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It is sweet to surve one country by deeds, and it is not absurd to surve her by words.
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No man underestimates the wrongs he suffers; many take them more seriously than is right.
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Distinguished ancestors shed a powerful light on their descendants, and forbid the concealment either of their merits or of their demerits.
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The firmest friendship is based on an identity of likes and dislikes.
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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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