Deliberate before you begin; but, having carefully done so, execute with vigour.
SALLUSTEach man the architect of his own fate.
More Sallust Quotes
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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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A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
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Get good counsel before you begin; and when you have decided, act promptly.
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Prosperity tries the souls even of the wise.
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Just to stir things up seemed a great reward in itself.
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Sovereignty is easily preserved by the very arts by which it was originally created. When, however, energy has given place to indifference, and temperance and justice to passion and arrogance, then as the morals change so changes fortune.
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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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Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master.
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For harmony makes small states great, while discord undermines the mightiest empires.
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In battle it is the cowards who run the most risk; bravery is a rampart of defense.
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To have the same desires and the same aversion is assuredly a firm bond of friendship.
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All men who would surpass the other animals should do their best not to pass through life silently like the beasts whom nature made prone, obedient to their bellies.
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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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By union the smallest states thrive. By discord the greatest are destroyed.
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Do as much as possible, and talk of yourself as little as possible.
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