It is sweet to surve one country by deeds, and it is not absurd to surve her by words.
SALLUSTProsperity tries the souls even of the wise.
More Sallust Quotes
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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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Harmony makes small things grow; lack of it makes great things decay.
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Ambition drove many men to become false; to have one thought locked in the breast, another ready on the tongue.
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For harmony makes small states great, while discord undermines the mightiest empires.
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Ambition breaks the ties of blood, and forgets the obligations of gratitude.
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Get good counsel before you begin; and when you have decided, act promptly.
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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 poorest of men are the most useful to those seeking power.
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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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To have the same desires and the same aversion is assuredly a firm bond of friendship.
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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 man who is roused neither by glory nor by danger it is in vain to exhort; terror closes the ears of the mind.
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It is always easy to begin a war, but very difficult to stop one.
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In victory even the cowardly like to boast, while in adverse times even the brave are discredited.
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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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Small communities grow great through harmony, great ones fall to pieces through discord.
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Everything that rises sets, and everything that grows, grows old.
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All those who offer an opinion on any doubtful point should first clear their minds of every sentiment of dislike, friendship, anger or pity.
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Sovereignty is easily preserved by the very arts by which it was originally created. When, however, energy has given place to indifference, and temperance and justice to passion and arrogance, then as the morals change so changes fortune.
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It is better to use fair means and fail, than foul and conquer.
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Poor Britons, there is some good in them after all – they produced an oyster.
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No man underestimates the wrongs he suffers; many take them more seriously than is right.
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Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master.
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The Romans assisted their allies and friends, and acquired friendships by giving rather than receiving kindness.
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To hope for safety in flight, when you have turned away from the enemy the arms by which the body is defended, is indeed madness. In battle those who are most afraid are always in most danger; but courage is equivalent to rampart.
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