They envy the distinction I have won; let them therefore, envy my toils, my honesty, and the methods by which I gained it.
SALLUSTIt is always easy to begin a war, but very difficult to stop one.
More Sallust Quotes
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Ambition drove many men to become false; to have one thought locked in the breast, another ready on the tongue.
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Neither soldiers nor money can defend a king but only friends won by good deeds, merit, and honesty.
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Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master.
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Harmony makes small things grow; lack of it makes great things decay.
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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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All men who would surpass the other animals should do their best not to pass through life silently like the beasts whom nature made prone, obedient to their bellies.
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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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A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
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To like and dislike the same things that is indeed true friendship.
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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 glory of riches and of beauty is frail and transitory; virtue remains bright and eternal.
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To someone seeking power, the poorest man is the most useful.
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Advise well before you begin, and when you have maturely considered, then act with promptitude.
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It is impossible that there should be so much providence in the last details, and none in the first principles. Then the arts of prophecy and of healing, which are part of the cosmos, come of the good providence of the Gods.
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Do as much as possible, and talk of yourself as little as possible.
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Everything that rises sets, and everything that grows, grows old.
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The renown which riches or beauty confer is fleeting and frail mental excellence is a splendid and lasting possession.
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One can ever assume to be what he is not, and to conceal what he is.
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He that will be angry for anything will be angry for nothing.
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By the wicked the good conduct of others is always dreaded.
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The higher your station, the less your liberty.
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The soul is the captain and ruler of the life of morals.
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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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Distinguished ancestors shed a powerful light on their descendants, and forbid the concealment either of their merits or of their demerits.
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But the case has proved that to be true which Appius says in his songs, that each man is the maker of his own fate.
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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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