In battle it is the cowards who run the most risk; bravery is a rampart of defense.
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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In my own case, who have spent my whole life in the practice of virtue, right conduct from habitual has become natural.
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Advise well before you begin, and when you have maturely considered, then act with promptitude.
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But at power or wealth, for the sake of which wars, and all kinds of strife, arise among mankind, we do not aim; we desire only our liberty, which no honorable man relinquishes but with his life.
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It is better to use fair means and fail, than foul and conquer.
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To like and dislike the same things that is indeed true friendship.
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Neither the army nor the treasury, but friends, are the true supports of the throne; for friends cannot be collected by force of arms, nor purchased with money; they are the offspring of kindness and sincerity.
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By union the smallest states thrive. By discord the greatest are destroyed.
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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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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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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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By the wicked the good conduct of others is always dreaded.
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Harmony makes small things grow; lack of it makes great things decay.
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Just to stir things up seemed a great reward in itself.
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Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.
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In victory even the cowardly like to boast, while in adverse times even the brave are discredited.
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