In victory even the cowardly like to boast, while in adverse times even the brave are discredited.
SALLUSTThe fame that goes with wealth and beauty is fleeting and fragile; intellectual superiority is a possession glorious and eternal.
More Sallust Quotes
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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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Prosperity tries the souls even of the wise.
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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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The fame that goes with wealth and beauty is fleeting and fragile; intellectual superiority is a possession glorious and eternal.
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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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But few prize honour more than money.
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To like and dislike the same things that is indeed true friendship.
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The glory of ancestors sheds a light around posterity; it allows neither good nor bad qualities to remain in obscurity.
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To have the same desires and the same aversion is assuredly a firm bond of friendship.
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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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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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A good man prefers to suffer rather than overcome injustice with evil.
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The glory of riches and of beauty is frail and transitory; virtue remains bright and eternal.
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By union the smallest states thrive. By discord the greatest are destroyed.
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