Greedy for the property of others, extravagant with his own
SALLUSTSmall communities grow great through harmony, great ones fall to pieces through discord.
More Sallust Quotes
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Prosperity tries the souls even of the wise.
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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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Small endeavours obtain strength by unity of action: the most powerful are broken down by discord.
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For harmony makes small states great, while discord undermines the mightiest empires.
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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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Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master.
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Each man the architect of his own fate.
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Advise well before you begin, and when you have maturely considered, then act with promptitude.
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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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In victory even the cowardly like to boast, while in adverse times even the brave are discredited.
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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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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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In my opinion, he only may be truly said to live and enjoy his being who is engaged in some laudable pursuit, and acquires a name by some illustrious action, or useful art.
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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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Neither soldiers nor money can defend a king but only friends won by good deeds, merit, and honesty.
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