For harmony makes small states great, while discord undermines the mightiest empires.
SALLUSTBefore you act consider; when you have considered, tis fully time to act.
More Sallust Quotes
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Small communities grow great through harmony, great ones fall to pieces through discord.
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No man underestimates the wrongs he suffers; many take them more seriously than is right.
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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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One can ever assume to be what he is not, and to conceal what he is.
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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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Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master.
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It is a law of human nature that in victory even the coward may boast of his prowess, while defeat injures the reputation even of the brave.
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To like and dislike the same things that is indeed true friendship.
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The Romans assisted their allies and friends, and acquired friendships by giving rather than receiving kindness.
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The renown which riches or beauty confer is fleeting and frail mental excellence is a splendid and lasting possession.
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It is better to use fair means and fail, than foul and conquer.
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All those who offer an opinion on any doubtful point should first clear their minds of every sentiment of dislike, friendship, anger or pity.
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The glory of wealth and of beauty is fleeting and frail; virtue is illustrious and everlasting.
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To someone seeking power, the poorest man is the most useful.
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To desire the same things and to reject the same things, constitutes 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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No grief reaches the dead.
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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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The fame that goes with wealth and beauty is fleeting and fragile; intellectual superiority is a possession glorious and eternal.
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Everything 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?
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Everything that rises sets, and everything that grows, grows old.
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In my opinion it is less shameful for a king to be overcome by force of arms than by bribery.
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Poor Britons, there is some good in them after all – they produced an oyster.
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The fame which is based on wealth or beauty is a frail and fleeting thing; but virtue shines for ages with undiminished lustre.
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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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Advise well before you begin, and when you have maturely considered, then act with promptitude.
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