Greedy for the property of others, extravagant with his own
SALLUSTEach man the architect of his own fate.
More Sallust Quotes
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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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Everything that rises sets, and everything that grows, grows old.
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The glory of ancestors sheds a light around posterity; it allows neither good nor bad qualities to remain in obscurity.
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It is sweet to surve one country by deeds, and it is not absurd to surve her by words.
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But at power or wealth, for the sake of which wars, and all kinds of strife, arise among mankind, we do not aim; we desire only our liberty, which no honorable man relinquishes but with his life.
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Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master.
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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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The firmest friendship is based on an identity of likes and dislikes.
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To hope for safety in flight, when you have turned away from the enemy the arms by which the body is defended, is indeed madness. In battle those who are most afraid are always in most danger; but courage is equivalent to rampart.
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Fame is the shadow of passion standing in the light.
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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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One can ever assume to be what he is not, and to conceal what he is.
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The fame which is based on wealth or beauty is a frail and fleeting thing; but virtue shines for ages with undiminished lustre.
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A good man prefers to suffer rather than overcome injustice with evil.
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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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