When the prizes fall to the lot of the wicked, you will not find many who are virtuous for virtue’s sake.
SALLUSTEverything 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?
More Sallust Quotes
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To have the same desires and the same aversion is assuredly a firm bond of friendship.
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By the wicked the good conduct of others is always dreaded.
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Deliberate before you begin; but, having carefully done so, execute with vigour.
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Each man the architect of his own fate.
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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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Everything that rises sets, and everything that grows, grows old.
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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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Distinguished ancestors shed a powerful light on their descendants, and forbid the concealment either of their merits or of their demerits.
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The soul is the captain and ruler of the life of morals.
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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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We employ the mind to rule, the body to serve.
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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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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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Small communities grow great through harmony, great ones fall to pieces through discord.
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The poorest of men are the most useful to those seeking power.
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