Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master.
SALLUSTThe firmest friendship is based on an identity of likes and dislikes.
More Sallust Quotes
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The man who is roused neither by glory nor by danger it is in vain to exhort; terror closes the ears of the mind.
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Do as much as possible, and talk of yourself as little as possible.
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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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No grief reaches the dead.
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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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Among intellectual pursuits, one of the most useful is the recording of past events.
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To desire the same things and to reject the same things, constitutes true 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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We employ the mind to rule, the body to serve.
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It is impossible that there should be so much providence in the last details, and none in the first principles. Then the arts of prophecy and of healing, which are part of the cosmos, come of the good providence of the Gods.
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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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To someone seeking power, the poorest man is the most useful.
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Every bad precedent originated as a justifiable measure.
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Deliberate before you begin; but, having carefully done so, execute with vigour.
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Everything destroyed is either resolved into the elements from which it came, or else vanishes into not-being. If things are resolved into the elements from which they came, then there will be others: else how did they come into being at all?
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