By union the smallest states thrive. By discord the greatest are destroyed.
SALLUSTThere were few who preferred honor to money.
More Sallust Quotes
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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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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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A good man prefers to suffer rather than overcome injustice with evil.
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No man underestimates the wrongs he suffers; many take them more seriously than is right.
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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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There were few who preferred honor to money.
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Those most moved to tears by every word of a preacher are generally weak and a rascal when the feelings evaporate.
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The very life which we enjoy is short.
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He that will be angry for anything will be angry for nothing.
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To someone seeking power, the poorest man is the most useful.
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To have the same desires and the same aversion is assuredly a firm bond of friendship.
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By the wicked the good conduct of others is always dreaded.
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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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The glory of wealth and of beauty is fleeting and frail; virtue is illustrious and everlasting.
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Harmony makes small things grow; lack of it makes great things decay.
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