But few prize honour more than money.
SALLUSTIt is always easy to begin a war, but very difficult to stop one.
More Sallust Quotes
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All who consult on doubtful matters, should be void of hatred, friendship, anger, and pity.
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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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They envy the distinction I have won; let them therefore, envy my toils, my honesty, and the methods by which I gained it.
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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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A good man prefers to suffer rather than overcome injustice with evil.
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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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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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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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By the wicked the good conduct of others is always dreaded.
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To have the same desires and the same aversion is assuredly a firm bond of friendship.
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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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No man underestimates the wrongs he suffers; many take them more seriously than is right.
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Among intellectual pursuits, one of the most useful is the recording of past events.
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It is sweet to surve one country by deeds, and it is not absurd to surve her by words.
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The Romans assisted their allies and friends, and acquired friendships by giving rather than receiving kindness.
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Greedy for the property of others, extravagant with his own
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To desire the same things and to reject the same things, constitutes true friendship.
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Just to stir things up seemed a great reward in itself.
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The poorest of men are the most useful to those seeking power.
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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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Do as much as possible, and talk of yourself as little as possible.
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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.
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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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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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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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