No grief reaches the dead.
SALLUSTEach man the architect of his own fate.
More Sallust Quotes
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To like and dislike the same things that is indeed true friendship.
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Among intellectual pursuits, one of the most useful is the recording of past events.
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A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
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Harmony makes small things grow; lack of it makes great things decay.
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Kings are more prone to mistrust the good than the bad; and they are always afraid of the virtues of others.
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Neither soldiers nor money can defend a king but only friends won by good deeds, merit, and honesty.
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It is better to use fair means and fail, than foul and conquer.
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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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Fortune rules in all things, and advances and depresses things more out of her own will than right and justice.
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For men who had easily endured hardship, danger and difficult uncertainty, leisure and riches, though in some ways desirable, proved burdensome and a source of grief.
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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 very life which we enjoy is short.
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One can ever assume to be what he is not, and to conceal what he is.
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No man underestimates the wrongs he suffers; many take them more seriously than is right.
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Before you act consider; when you have considered, tis fully time to act.
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Each man the architect of his own fate.
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Every bad precedent originated as a justifiable measure.
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By the wicked the good conduct of others is always dreaded.
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Fame is the shadow of passion standing in the light.
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Do as much as possible, and talk of yourself as little as possible.
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The Romans assisted their allies and friends, and acquired friendships by giving rather than receiving kindness.
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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 glory of riches and of beauty is frail and transitory; virtue remains bright and eternal.
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The firmest friendship is based on an identity of likes and dislikes.
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They envy the distinction I have won; let them therefore, envy my toils, my honesty, and the methods by which I gained it.
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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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