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.
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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It is always easy to begin a war, but very difficult to stop one.
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We employ the mind to rule, the body to serve.
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To like and dislike the same things that is indeed true friendship.
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Not by vows nor by womanish prayers is the help of the gods obtained; success comes through vigilance, energy, wise counsel.
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Ambition breaks the ties of blood, and forgets the obligations of gratitude.
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The fame that goes with wealth and beauty is fleeting and fragile; intellectual superiority is a possession glorious and eternal.
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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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All who consult on doubtful matters, should be void of hatred, friendship, anger, and pity.
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Everything that rises sets, and everything that grows, grows old.
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Get good counsel before you begin; and when you have decided, act promptly.
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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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No grief reaches the dead.
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Poor Britons, there is some good in them after all – they produced an oyster.
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But the case has proved that to be true which Appius says in his songs, that each man is the maker of his own fate.
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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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