Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.
SALLUSTThere were few who preferred honor to money.
More Sallust Quotes
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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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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 firmest friendship is based on an identity of likes and dislikes.
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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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Everything that rises sets, and everything that grows, grows old.
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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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Neither soldiers nor money can defend a king but only friends won by good deeds, merit, and honesty.
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Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master.
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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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By the wicked the good conduct of others is always dreaded.
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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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It is sweet to surve one country by deeds, and it is not absurd to surve her by words.
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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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Among intellectual pursuits, one of the most useful is the recording of past events.
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