Each man the architect of his own fate.
SALLUSTAll 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.
More Sallust Quotes
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But assuredly Fortune rules in all things; she raised to eminence or buries in oblivion everything from caprice rather than from well-regulated principle.
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One can ever assume to be what he is not, and to conceal what he is.
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Harmony makes small things grow; lack of it makes great things decay.
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A good man prefers to suffer rather than overcome injustice with evil.
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The Romans assisted their allies and friends, and acquired friendships by giving rather than receiving kindness.
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In my opinion, he only may be truly said to live and enjoy his being who is engaged in some laudable pursuit, and acquires a name by some illustrious action, or useful art.
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Everything that rises sets, and everything that grows, grows old.
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The glory of riches and of beauty is frail and transitory; virtue remains bright 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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Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.
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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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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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Small communities grow great through harmony, great ones fall to pieces through discord.
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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 glory of wealth and of beauty is fleeting and frail; virtue is illustrious and everlasting.
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Get good counsel before you begin; and when you have decided, act promptly.
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Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master.
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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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To someone seeking power, the poorest man is the most useful.
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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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In my opinion it is less shameful for a king to be overcome by force of arms than by bribery.
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Prosperity tries the souls even of the wise.
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Fame is the shadow of passion standing in the light.
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A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
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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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Poor Britons, there is some good in them after all – they produced an oyster.
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