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.
SALLUSTWhen the prizes fall to the lot of the wicked, you will not find many who are virtuous for virtue’s sake.
More Sallust Quotes
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Small communities grow great through harmony, great ones fall to pieces through discord.
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But few prize honour more than money.
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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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To have the same desires and the same aversion is assuredly a firm bond of friendship.
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To someone seeking power, the poorest man is the most useful.
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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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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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Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master.
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Harmony makes small things grow; lack of it makes great things decay.
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It is always easy to begin a war, but very difficult to stop one.
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It is sweet to surve one country by deeds, and it is not absurd to surve her by words.
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The soul is the captain and ruler of the life of morals.
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Just to stir things up seemed a great reward in itself.
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For harmony makes small states great, while discord undermines the mightiest empires.
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The glory of wealth and of beauty is fleeting and frail; virtue is illustrious and everlasting.
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