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.
SALLUSTEach man the architect of his own fate.
More Sallust Quotes
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A good man prefers to suffer rather than overcome injustice with evil.
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Among intellectual pursuits, one of the most useful is the recording of past events.
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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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Ambition breaks the ties of blood, and forgets the obligations of gratitude.
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Deliberate before you begin; but, having carefully done so, execute with vigour.
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Enough words, little wisdom.
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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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To have the same desires and the same aversion is assuredly a firm bond of friendship.
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No man underestimates the wrongs he suffers; many take them more seriously than is right.
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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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Harmony makes small things grow; lack of it makes great things decay.
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Of the cosmic Gods some make the world be, others animate it, others harmonize it, consisting as it does of different elements; the fourth class keep it when harmonized.
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Every bad precedent originated as a justifiable measure.
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Fame is the shadow of passion standing in the light.
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