All persons who are enthusiastic that they should transcend the other animals ought to strive with the utmost effort not to pass through a life of silence, like cattle, which nature has fashioned to be prone and obedient to their stomachs.
SALLUSTAll those who offer an opinion on any doubtful point should first clear their minds of every sentiment of dislike, friendship, anger or pity.
More Sallust Quotes
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Neither the army nor the treasury, but friends, are the true supports of the throne; for friends cannot be collected by force of arms, nor purchased with money; they are the offspring of kindness and sincerity.
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The firmest friendship is based on an identity of likes and dislikes.
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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 poorest of men are the most useful to those seeking power.
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We employ the mind to rule, the body to serve.
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It is better to use fair means and fail, than foul and conquer.
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But the case has proved that to be true which Appius says in his songs, that each man is the maker of his own fate.
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A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
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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 always easy to begin a war, but very difficult to stop one.
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Just to stir things up seemed a great reward in itself.
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The glory of wealth and of beauty is fleeting and frail; virtue is illustrious and everlasting.
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The Romans assisted their allies and friends, and acquired friendships by giving rather than receiving kindness.
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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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The renown which riches or beauty confer is fleeting and frail mental excellence is a splendid and lasting possession.
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