Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.
SALLUSTProsperity tries the souls even of the wise.
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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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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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.
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Necessity makes even the timid brave.
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Advise well before you begin, and when you have maturely considered, then act with promptitude.
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Small communities grow great through harmony, great ones fall to pieces through discord.
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A good man prefers to suffer rather than overcome injustice with evil.
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It is always easy to begin a war, but very difficult to stop one.
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By union the smallest states thrive. By discord the greatest are destroyed.
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One can ever assume to be what he is not, and to conceal what he is.
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Prosperity tries the souls even of the wise.
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Deliberate before you begin; but, having carefully done so, execute with vigour.
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The Romans assisted their allies and friends, and acquired friendships by giving rather than receiving kindness.
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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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The poorest of men are the most useful to those seeking power.
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