It is always easy to begin a war, but very difficult to stop one.
SALLUSTJust to stir things up seemed a great reward in itself.
More Sallust Quotes
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Poor Britons, there is some good in them after all – they produced an oyster.
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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.
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All who consult on doubtful matters, should be void of hatred, friendship, anger, and pity.
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A good man prefers to suffer rather than overcome injustice with evil.
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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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A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
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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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Enough words, little wisdom.
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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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Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.
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Each man the architect of his own fate.
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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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In victory even the cowardly like to boast, while in adverse times even the brave are discredited.
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It is better to use fair means and fail, than foul and conquer.
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Not by vows nor by womanish prayers is the help of the gods obtained; success comes through vigilance, energy, wise counsel.
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