The higher your station, the less your liberty.
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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The very life which we enjoy is short.
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The Romans assisted their allies and friends, and acquired friendships by giving rather than receiving kindness.
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Deliberate before you begin; but, having carefully done so, execute with vigour.
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It is a law of human nature that in victory even the coward may boast of his prowess, while defeat injures the reputation even of the brave.
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Enough words, little wisdom.
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Fortune rules in all things, and advances and depresses things more out of her own will than right and justice.
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A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
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By union the smallest states thrive. By discord the greatest are destroyed.
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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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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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Ambition breaks the ties of blood, and forgets the obligations of gratitude.
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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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Harmony makes small things grow; lack of it makes great things decay.
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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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Do as much as possible, and talk of yourself as little as possible.
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