Enough words, little wisdom.
SALLUSTEach man the architect of his own fate.
More Sallust Quotes
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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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No grief reaches the dead.
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Among intellectual pursuits, one of the most useful is the recording of past events.
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The glory of riches and of beauty is frail and transitory; virtue remains bright and eternal.
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It is always easy to begin a war, but very difficult to stop one.
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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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When the prizes fall to the lot of the wicked, you will not find many who are virtuous for virtue’s sake.
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Harmony makes small things grow; lack of it makes great things decay.
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Deliberate before you begin; but, having carefully done so, execute with vigour.
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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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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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In victory even the cowardly like to boast, while in adverse times even the brave are discredited.
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The poorest of men are the most useful to those seeking power.
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But few prize honour more than money.
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Small endeavours obtain strength by unity of action: the most powerful are broken down by discord.
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