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.
SALLUSTNo grief reaches the dead.
More Sallust Quotes
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The higher your station, the less your liberty.
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When the prizes fall to the lot of the wicked, you will not find many who are virtuous for virtue’s sake.
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Among intellectual pursuits, one of the most useful is the recording of past events.
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For men who had easily endured hardship, danger and difficult uncertainty, leisure and riches, though in some ways desirable, proved burdensome and a source of grief.
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No grief reaches the dead.
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Necessity makes even the timid brave.
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Small communities grow great through harmony, great ones fall to pieces through discord.
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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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Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.
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Advise well before you begin, and when you have maturely considered, then act with promptitude.
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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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In victory even the cowardly like to boast, while in adverse times even the brave are discredited.
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Harmony makes small things grow; lack of it makes great things decay.
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The poorest of men are the most useful to those seeking power.
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The glory of wealth and of beauty is fleeting and frail; virtue is illustrious and everlasting.
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