There were few who preferred honor to money.
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More Sallust Quotes
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The glory of riches and of beauty is frail and transitory; virtue remains bright and eternal.
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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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Just to stir things up seemed a great reward in itself.
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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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In battle it is the cowards who run the most risk; bravery is a rampart of defense.
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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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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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Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master.
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To desire the same things and to reject the same things, constitutes true friendship.
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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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Poor Britons, there is some good in them after all – they produced an oyster.
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Prosperity tries the souls even of the wise.
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He that will be angry for anything will be angry for nothing.
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The soul is the captain and ruler of the life of morals.
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Distinguished ancestors shed a powerful light on their descendants, and forbid the concealment either of their merits or of their demerits.
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