To have the same desires and the same aversion is assuredly a firm bond of friendship.
SALLUSTThe glory of wealth and of beauty is fleeting and frail; virtue is illustrious and everlasting.
More Sallust Quotes
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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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The glory of riches and of beauty is frail and transitory; virtue remains bright and eternal.
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For men who had easily endured hardship, danger and difficult uncertainty, leisure and riches, though in some ways desirable, proved burdensome and a source of grief.
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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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By union the smallest states thrive. By discord the greatest are destroyed.
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No mortal man has ever served at the same time his passions and his best interests.
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Prosperity tries the souls even of the wise.
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No grief reaches the dead.
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By the wicked the good conduct of others is always dreaded.
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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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But few prize honour more than money.
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When the prizes fall to the lot of the wicked, you will not find many who are virtuous for virtue’s sake.
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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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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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For harmony makes small states great, while discord undermines the mightiest empires.
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Among intellectual pursuits, one of the most useful is the recording of past events.
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It is better to use fair means and fail, than foul and conquer.
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One can ever assume to be what he is not, and to conceal what he is.
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Greedy for the property of others, extravagant with his own
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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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Before you act consider; when you have considered, tis fully time to act.
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Kings are more prone to mistrust the good than the bad; and they are always afraid of the virtues of others.
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It is always easy to begin a war, but very difficult to stop one.
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Just to stir things up seemed a great reward in itself.
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The glory of ancestors sheds a light around posterity; it allows neither good nor bad qualities to remain in obscurity.
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