Before you act consider; when you have considered, tis fully time to act.
SALLUSTThe firmest friendship is based on an identity of likes and dislikes.
More Sallust Quotes
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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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Small communities grow great through harmony, great ones fall to pieces through discord.
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Get good counsel before you begin; and when you have decided, act promptly.
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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 fame that goes with wealth and beauty is fleeting and fragile; intellectual superiority is a possession glorious and eternal.
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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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The Romans assisted their allies and friends, and acquired friendships by giving rather than receiving kindness.
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All those who offer an opinion on any doubtful point should first clear their minds of every sentiment of dislike, friendship, anger or pity.
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The higher your station, the less your liberty.
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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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The Gods being good and making all things, there is no positive evil, it only comes by absence of good; just as darkness itself does not exist, but only comes about by absence of light.
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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 very life which we enjoy is short.
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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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Advise well before you begin, and when you have maturely considered, then act with promptitude.
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