The higher your station, the less your liberty.
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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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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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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Ambition breaks the ties of blood, and forgets the obligations of gratitude.
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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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No man underestimates the wrongs he suffers; many take them more seriously than is right.
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There were few who preferred honor to money.
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To hope for safety in flight, when you have turned away from the enemy the arms by which the body is defended, is indeed madness. In battle those who are most afraid are always in most danger; but courage is equivalent to rampart.
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All who consult on doubtful matters, should be void of hatred, friendship, anger, and pity.
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By the wicked the good conduct of others is always dreaded.
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Most honorable are services rendered to the State; even if they do not go beyond words, they are not to be despised.
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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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Do as much as possible, and talk of yourself as little as possible.
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To desire the same things and to reject the same things, constitutes true friendship.
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The poorest of men are the most useful to those seeking power.
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