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.
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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Get good counsel before you begin; and when you have decided, act promptly.
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The glory of wealth and of beauty is fleeting and frail; virtue is illustrious and everlasting.
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No man underestimates the wrongs he suffers; many take them more seriously than is right.
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No grief reaches the dead.
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Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master.
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Fortune rules in all things, and advances and depresses things more out of her own will than right and justice.
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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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To like and dislike the same things that is indeed true friendship.
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In my own case, who have spent my whole life in the practice of virtue, right conduct from habitual has become natural.
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The firmest friendship is based on an identity of likes and dislikes.
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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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Every bad precedent originated as a justifiable measure.
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Just to stir things up seemed a great reward in itself.
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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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