It is sweet to surve one country by deeds, and it is not absurd to surve her by words.
SALLUSTNo grief reaches the dead.
More Sallust Quotes
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Those most moved to tears by every word of a preacher are generally weak and a rascal when the feelings evaporate.
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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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Among intellectual pursuits, one of the most useful is the recording of past events.
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To have the same desires and the same aversion is assuredly a firm bond of friendship.
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Ambition breaks the ties of blood, and forgets the obligations of gratitude.
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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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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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Fortune rules in all things, and advances and depresses things more out of her own will than right and justice.
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A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
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Everything that rises sets, and everything that grows, grows old.
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The very life which we enjoy is short.
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By union the smallest states thrive. By discord the greatest are destroyed.
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By the wicked the good conduct of others is always dreaded.
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Distinguished ancestors shed a powerful light on their descendants, and forbid the concealment either of their merits or of their demerits.
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But at power or wealth, for the sake of which wars, and all kinds of strife, arise among mankind, we do not aim; we desire only our liberty, which no honorable man relinquishes but with his life.
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