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.
SALLUSTIt is always easy to begin a war, but very difficult to stop one.
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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Just to stir things up seemed a great reward in itself.
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To desire the same things and to reject the same things, constitutes true friendship.
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It is better to use fair means and fail, than foul and conquer.
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Most honorable are services rendered to the State; even if they do not go beyond words, they are not to be despised.
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But at power or wealth, for the sake of which wars, and all kinds of strife, arise among mankind, we do not aim; we desire only our liberty, which no honorable man relinquishes but with his life.
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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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Do as much as possible, and talk of yourself as little as possible.
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Get good counsel before you begin; and when you have decided, act promptly.
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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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By union the smallest states thrive. By discord the greatest are destroyed.
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But few prize honour more than money.
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No mortal man has ever served at the same time his passions and his best interests.
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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 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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