We employ the mind to rule, the body to serve.
SALLUSTThe firmest friendship is based on an identity of likes and dislikes.
More Sallust Quotes
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Enough words, little wisdom.
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But assuredly Fortune rules in all things; she raised to eminence or buries in oblivion everything from caprice rather than from well-regulated principle.
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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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No mortal man has ever served at the same time his passions and his best interests.
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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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Each man the architect of his own fate.
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He that will be angry for anything will be angry for nothing.
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By union the smallest states thrive. By discord the greatest are destroyed.
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Ambition breaks the ties of blood, and forgets the obligations of gratitude.
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The glory of riches and of beauty is frail and transitory; virtue remains bright and eternal.
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Just to stir things up seemed a great reward in itself.
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It is always easy to begin a war, but very difficult to stop one.
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It is a law of human nature that in victory even the coward may boast of his prowess, while defeat injures the reputation even of the brave.
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No grief reaches the dead.
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All who consult on doubtful matters, should be void of hatred, friendship, anger, and pity.
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