Of the cosmic Gods some make the world be, others animate it, others harmonize it, consisting as it does of different elements; the fourth class keep it when harmonized.
SALLUSTIt 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.
More Sallust Quotes
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It is always easy to begin a war, but very difficult to stop one.
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The firmest friendship is based on an identity of likes and dislikes.
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The higher your station, the less your liberty.
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Ambition breaks the ties of blood, and forgets the obligations of gratitude.
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The glory of riches and of beauty is frail and transitory; virtue remains bright and eternal.
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All those who offer an opinion on any doubtful point should first clear their minds of every sentiment of dislike, friendship, anger or pity.
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Every bad precedent originated as a justifiable measure.
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Sovereignty is easily preserved by the very arts by which it was originally created. When, however, energy has given place to indifference, and temperance and justice to passion and arrogance, then as the morals change so changes fortune.
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Since we have received everything from the Gods, and it is right to pay the giver some tithe of his gifts, we pay such a tithe of possessions in votive offering, of bodies in gifts of (hair and) adornment, and of life in sacrifices.
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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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One can ever assume to be what he is not, and to conceal what he is.
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No grief reaches the dead.
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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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By union the smallest states thrive. By discord the greatest are destroyed.
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The poorest of men are the most useful to those seeking power.
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