Distinguished ancestors shed a powerful light on their descendants, and forbid the concealment either of their merits or of their demerits.
SALLUSTProsperity tries the souls even of the wise.
More Sallust Quotes
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To desire the same things and to reject the same things, constitutes true friendship.
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But assuredly Fortune rules in all things; she raised to eminence or buries in oblivion everything from caprice rather than from well-regulated principle.
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The higher your station, the less your liberty.
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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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In battle it is the cowards who run the most risk; bravery is a rampart of defense.
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The very life which we enjoy is short.
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Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master.
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Greedy for the property of others, extravagant with his own
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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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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 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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All men who would surpass the other animals should do their best not to pass through life silently like the beasts whom nature made prone, obedient to their bellies.
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The glory of riches and of beauty is frail and transitory; virtue remains bright and eternal.
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No grief reaches the dead.
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The glory of wealth and of beauty is fleeting and frail; virtue is illustrious and everlasting.
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