It is always easy enough to take up arms, but very difficult to lay them down; the commencement and the termination of war are not necessarily in the same hands; even a coward may begin, but the end comes only when the victors are willing.
SALLUSTJust to stir things up seemed a great reward in itself.
More Sallust Quotes
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A good man prefers to suffer rather than overcome injustice with evil.
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Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master.
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Small endeavours obtain strength by unity of action: the most powerful are broken down by discord.
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To someone seeking power, the poorest man is the most useful.
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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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Small communities grow great through harmony, great ones fall to pieces through discord.
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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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Just to stir things up seemed a great reward in itself.
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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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It is impossible that there should be so much providence in the last details, and none in the first principles. Then the arts of prophecy and of healing, which are part of the cosmos, come of the good providence of the Gods.
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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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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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One can ever assume to be what he is not, and to conceal what he is.
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A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
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No man underestimates the wrongs he suffers; many take them more seriously than is right.
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