Just to stir things up seemed a great reward in itself.
SALLUSTFame is the shadow of passion standing in the light.
More Sallust Quotes
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Get good counsel before you begin; and when you have decided, act promptly.
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Necessity makes even the timid brave.
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The glory of riches and of beauty is frail and transitory; virtue remains bright and eternal.
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Before you act consider; when you have considered, tis fully time to act.
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Prosperity tries the souls even of the wise.
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The Gods being good and making all things, there is no positive evil, it only comes by absence of good; just as darkness itself does not exist, but only comes about by absence of light.
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A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
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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.
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Enough words, little wisdom.
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Deliberate before you begin; but, having carefully done so, execute with vigour.
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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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In victory even the cowardly like to boast, while in adverse times even the brave are discredited.
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Ambition drove many men to become false; to have one thought locked in the breast, another ready on the tongue.
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It is impossible that there should be so much providence in the last details, and none in the first principles. Then the arts of prophecy and of healing, which are part of the cosmos, come of the good providence of the Gods.
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Small endeavours obtain strength by unity of action: the most powerful are broken down by discord.
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