The glory of ancestors sheds a light around posterity; it allows neither good nor bad qualities to remain in obscurity.
SALLUSTAll who consult on doubtful matters, should be void of hatred, friendship, anger, and pity.
More Sallust Quotes
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All those who offer an opinion on any doubtful point should first clear their minds of every sentiment of dislike, friendship, anger or pity.
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No grief reaches the dead.
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Everything destroyed is either resolved into the elements from which it came, or else vanishes into not-being. If things are resolved into the elements from which they came, then there will be others: else how did they come into being at all?
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Before you act consider; when you have considered, tis fully time to act.
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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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In battle it is the cowards who run the most risk; bravery is a rampart of defense.
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The poorest of men are the most useful to those seeking power.
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To desire the same things and to reject the same things, constitutes true friendship.
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The man who is roused neither by glory nor by danger it is in vain to exhort; terror closes the ears of the mind.
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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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Fame is the shadow of passion standing in the light.
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The glory of riches and of beauty is frail and transitory; virtue remains bright and eternal.
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Get good counsel before you begin; and when you have decided, act promptly.
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All men who would surpass the other animals should do their best not to pass through life silently like the beasts whom nature made prone, obedient to their bellies.
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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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