A good man prefers to suffer rather than overcome injustice with evil.
SALLUSTJust to stir things up seemed a great reward in itself.
More Sallust Quotes
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Ambition breaks the ties of blood, and forgets the obligations of gratitude.
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The fame that goes with wealth and beauty is fleeting and fragile; intellectual superiority is a possession glorious and eternal.
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Harmony makes small things grow; lack of it makes great things decay.
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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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The very life which we enjoy is short.
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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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We employ the mind to rule, the body to serve.
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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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Before you act consider; when you have considered, tis fully time to act.
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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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Fame is the shadow of passion standing in the light.
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The soul is the captain and ruler of the life of morals.
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He that will be angry for anything will be angry for nothing.
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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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Prosperity tries the souls even of the wise.
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