Small endeavours obtain strength by unity of action: the most powerful are broken down by discord.
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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Before you act consider; when you have considered, tis fully time to act.
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The fame that goes with wealth and beauty is fleeting and fragile; intellectual superiority is a possession glorious and eternal.
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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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Deliberate before you begin; but, having carefully done so, execute with vigour.
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The glory of wealth and of beauty is fleeting and frail; virtue is illustrious and everlasting.
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The fame which is based on wealth or beauty is a frail and fleeting thing; but virtue shines for ages with undiminished lustre.
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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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By the wicked the good conduct of others is always dreaded.
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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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Neither soldiers nor money can defend a king but only friends won by good deeds, merit, and honesty.
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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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Enough words, little wisdom.
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Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.
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The Gods being good and making all things, there is no positive evil, it only comes by absence of good; just as darkness itself does not exist, but only comes about by absence of light.
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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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