Fame is the shadow of passion standing in the light.
SALLUSTProsperity tries the souls even of the wise.
More Sallust Quotes
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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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Poor Britons, there is some good in them after all – they produced an oyster.
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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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By the wicked the good conduct of others is always dreaded.
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It is better to use fair means and fail, than foul and conquer.
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Small endeavours obtain strength by unity of action: the most powerful are broken down by discord.
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There were few who preferred honor to money.
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Those most moved to tears by every word of a preacher are generally weak and a rascal when the feelings evaporate.
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Of the bodies in the cosmos, some imitate mind and move in orbits; some imitate soul and move in a straight line, fire and air upward, earth and water downward.
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Harmony makes small things grow; lack of it makes great things decay.
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No man underestimates the wrongs he suffers; many take them more seriously than is right.
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It is always easy to begin a war, but very difficult to stop one.
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All who consult on doubtful matters, should be void of hatred, friendship, anger, and pity.
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Kings are more prone to mistrust the good than the bad; and they are always afraid of the virtues of others.
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Deliberate before you begin; but, having carefully done so, execute with vigour.
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