For harmony makes small states great, while discord undermines the mightiest empires.
SALLUSTThere were few who preferred honor to money.
More Sallust Quotes
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The Romans assisted their allies and friends, and acquired friendships by giving rather than receiving kindness.
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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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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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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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By the wicked the good conduct of others is always dreaded.
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Get good counsel before you begin; and when you have decided, act promptly.
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No grief reaches the dead.
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In my own case, who have spent my whole life in the practice of virtue, right conduct from habitual has become natural.
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Greedy for the property of others, extravagant with his own
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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 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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One can ever assume to be what he is not, and to conceal what he is.
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Do as much as possible, and talk of yourself as little as possible.
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We employ the mind to rule, the body to serve.
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To desire the same things and to reject the same things, constitutes true friendship.
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