To hope for safety in flight, when you have turned away from the enemy the arms by which the body is defended, is indeed madness. In battle those who are most afraid are always in most danger; but courage is equivalent to rampart.
SALLUSTJust to stir things up seemed a great reward in itself.
More Sallust Quotes
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Do as much as possible, and talk of yourself as little as possible.
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Necessity makes even the timid brave.
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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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All who consult on doubtful matters, should be void of hatred, friendship, anger, and pity.
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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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To like and dislike the same things that is indeed true friendship.
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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 higher your station, the less your liberty.
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To have the same desires and the same aversion is assuredly a firm bond of friendship.
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But few prize honour more than money.
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As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.
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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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Small endeavours obtain strength by unity of action: the most powerful are broken down by discord.
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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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For harmony makes small states great, while discord undermines the mightiest empires.
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