Most honorable are services rendered to the State; even if they do not go beyond words, they are not to be despised.
SALLUSTBy union the smallest states thrive. By discord the greatest are destroyed.
More Sallust Quotes
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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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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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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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By union the smallest states thrive. By discord the greatest are destroyed.
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Prosperity tries the souls even of the wise.
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Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master.
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Every bad precedent originated as a justifiable measure.
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The very life which we enjoy is short.
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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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To desire the same things and to reject the same things, constitutes true friendship.
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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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One can ever assume to be what he is not, and to conceal what he is.
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The glory of wealth and of beauty is fleeting and frail; virtue is illustrious and everlasting.
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But assuredly Fortune rules in all things; she raised to eminence or buries in oblivion everything from caprice rather than from well-regulated principle.
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A good man prefers to suffer rather than overcome injustice with evil.
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