But few prize honour more than money.
SALLUSTBy the wicked the good conduct of others is always dreaded.
More Sallust Quotes
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Fame is the shadow of passion standing in the light.
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No grief reaches the dead.
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A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
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Everything that rises sets, and everything that grows, grows old.
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The glory of riches and of beauty is frail and transitory; virtue remains bright and eternal.
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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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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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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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No man underestimates the wrongs he suffers; many take them more seriously than is right.
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To desire the same things and to reject the same things, constitutes true friendship.
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Harmony makes small things grow; lack of it makes great things decay.
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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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Since we have received everything from the Gods, and it is right to pay the giver some tithe of his gifts, we pay such a tithe of possessions in votive offering, of bodies in gifts of (hair and) adornment, and of life in sacrifices.
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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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Deliberate before you begin; but, having carefully done so, execute with vigour.
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