It is always easy enough to take up arms, but very difficult to lay them down; the commencement and the termination of war are not necessarily in the same hands; even a coward may begin, but the end comes only when the victors are willing.
SALLUSTThere were few who preferred honor to money.
More Sallust Quotes
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The glory of wealth and of beauty is fleeting and frail; virtue is illustrious and everlasting.
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A good man prefers to suffer rather than overcome injustice with evil.
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Of the cosmic Gods some make the world be, others animate it, others harmonize it, consisting as it does of different elements; the fourth class keep it when harmonized.
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The glory of riches and of beauty is frail and transitory; virtue remains bright and eternal.
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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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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 soul is the captain and ruler of the life of morals.
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Kings are more prone to mistrust the good than the bad; and they are always afraid of the virtues of others.
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Not by vows nor by womanish prayers is the help of the gods obtained; success comes through vigilance, energy, wise counsel.
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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 union the smallest states thrive. By discord the greatest are destroyed.
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In battle it is the cowards who run the most risk; bravery is a rampart of defense.
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To like and dislike the same things that is indeed true friendship.
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Among intellectual pursuits, one of the most useful is the recording of past events.
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Deliberate before you begin; but, having carefully done so, execute with vigour.
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