Deliberate before you begin; but, having carefully done so, execute with vigour.
SALLUSTBy union the smallest states thrive. By discord the greatest are destroyed.
More Sallust Quotes
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No man underestimates the wrongs he suffers; many take them more seriously than is right.
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Among intellectual pursuits, one of the most useful is the recording of past events.
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Neither soldiers nor money can defend a king but only friends won by good deeds, merit, and honesty.
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Ambition drove many men to become false; to have one thought locked in the breast, another ready on the tongue.
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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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The firmest friendship is based on an identity of likes and dislikes.
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To desire the same things and to reject the same things, constitutes true friendship.
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The fame which is based on wealth or beauty is a frail and fleeting thing; but virtue shines for ages with undiminished lustre.
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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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The glory of ancestors sheds a light around posterity; it allows neither good nor bad qualities to remain in obscurity.
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Poor Britons, there is some good in them after all – they produced an oyster.
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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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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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