All who consult on doubtful matters, should be void of hatred, friendship, anger, and pity.
SALLUSTEach man the architect of his own fate.
More Sallust Quotes
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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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Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.
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Deliberate before you begin; but, having carefully done so, execute with vigour.
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To have the same desires and the same aversion is assuredly a firm bond of friendship.
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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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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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Ambition breaks the ties of blood, and forgets the obligations of gratitude.
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By union the smallest states thrive. By discord the greatest are destroyed.
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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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The higher your station, the less your liberty.
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Of the bodies in the cosmos, some imitate mind and move in orbits; some imitate soul and move in a straight line, fire and air upward, earth and water downward.
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Enough words, little wisdom.
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For harmony makes small states great, while discord undermines the mightiest empires.
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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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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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