As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. 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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The glory of riches and of beauty is frail and transitory; virtue remains bright and eternal.
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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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No mortal man has ever served at the same time his passions and his best interests.
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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.
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The Romans assisted their allies and friends, and acquired friendships by giving rather than receiving kindness.
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Get good counsel before you begin; and when you have decided, act promptly.
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All persons who are enthusiastic that they should transcend the other animals ought to strive with the utmost effort not to pass through a life of silence, like cattle, which nature has fashioned to be prone and obedient to their stomachs.
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When the prizes fall to the lot of the wicked, you will not find many who are virtuous for virtue’s sake.
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A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
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One can ever assume to be what he is not, and to conceal what he is.
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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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Small endeavours obtain strength by unity of action: the most powerful are broken down by discord.
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To someone seeking power, the poorest man is the most useful.
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The poorest of men are the most useful to those seeking power.
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Harmony makes small things grow; lack of it makes great things decay.
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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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He that will be angry for anything will be angry for nothing.
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We employ the mind to rule, the body to serve.
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Every bad precedent originated as a justifiable measure.
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But few prize honour more than money.
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Just to stir things up seemed a great reward in itself.
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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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Everything that rises sets, and everything that grows, grows old.
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Since we have received everything from the Gods, and it is right to pay the giver some tithe of his gifts, we pay such a tithe of possessions in votive offering, of bodies in gifts of (hair and) adornment, and of life in sacrifices.
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The fame which is based on wealth or beauty is a frail and fleeting thing; but virtue shines for ages with undiminished lustre.
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By union the smallest states thrive. By discord the greatest are destroyed.
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