We employ the mind to rule, the body to serve.
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More Sallust Quotes
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A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
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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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By union the smallest states thrive. By discord the greatest are destroyed.
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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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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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There were few who preferred honor to money.
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In my opinion, he only may be truly said to live and enjoy his being who is engaged in some laudable pursuit, and acquires a name by some illustrious action, or useful art.
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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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Of the cosmic Gods some make the world be, others animate it, others harmonize it, consisting as it does of different elements; the fourth class keep it when harmonized.
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Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master.
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Enough words, little wisdom.
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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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But few prize honour more than money.
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No mortal man has ever served at the same time his passions and his best interests.
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Everything destroyed is either resolved into the elements from which it came, or else vanishes into not-being. If things are resolved into the elements from which they came, then there will be others: else how did they come into being at all?
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The fame which is based on wealth or beauty is a frail and fleeting thing; but virtue shines for ages with undiminished lustre.
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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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Before you act consider; when you have considered, tis fully time to act.
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Poor Britons, there is some good in them after all – they produced an oyster.
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The glory of ancestors sheds a light around posterity; it allows neither good nor bad qualities to remain in obscurity.
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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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Advise well before you begin, and when you have maturely considered, then act with promptitude.
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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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Greedy for the property of others, extravagant with his own
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Do as much as possible, and talk of yourself as little as possible.
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