Neither soldiers nor money can defend a king but only friends won by good deeds, merit, and honesty.
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 glory of riches and of beauty is frail and transitory; virtue remains bright and eternal.
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No mortal man has ever served at the same time his passions and his best interests.
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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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Those most moved to tears by every word of a preacher are generally weak and a rascal when the feelings evaporate.
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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.
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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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We employ the mind to rule, the body to serve.
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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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Get good counsel before you begin; and when you have decided, act promptly.
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Most honorable are services rendered to the State; even if they do not go beyond words, they are not to be despised.
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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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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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Each man the architect of his own fate.
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The glory of wealth and of beauty is fleeting and frail; virtue is illustrious and everlasting.
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