Necessity makes even the timid brave.
SALLUSTNo grief reaches the dead.
More Sallust Quotes
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Among intellectual pursuits, one of the most useful is the recording of past events.
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Since we have received everything from the Gods, and it is right to pay the giver some tithe of his gifts, we pay such a tithe of possessions in votive offering, of bodies in gifts of (hair and) adornment, and of life in sacrifices.
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In battle it is the cowards who run the most risk; bravery is a rampart of defense.
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Everything that rises sets, and everything that grows, grows old.
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The glory of riches and of beauty is frail and transitory; virtue remains bright and eternal.
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To like and dislike the same things that is indeed true friendship.
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The renown which riches or beauty confer is fleeting and frail mental excellence is a splendid and lasting possession.
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One can ever assume to be what he is not, and to conceal what he is.
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In my opinion it is less shameful for a king to be overcome by force of arms than by bribery.
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The glory of wealth and of beauty is fleeting and frail; virtue is illustrious and everlasting.
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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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No grief reaches the dead.
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Small communities grow great through harmony, great ones fall to pieces through discord.
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It is always easy enough to take up arms, but very difficult to lay them down; the commencement and the termination of war are not necessarily in the same hands; even a coward may begin, but the end comes only when the victors are willing.
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Most honorable are services rendered to the State; even if they do not go beyond words, they are not to be despised.
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