We employ the mind to rule, the body to serve.
SALLUSTTo someone seeking power, the poorest man is the most useful.
More Sallust Quotes
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The very life which we enjoy is short.
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Small communities grow great through harmony, great ones fall to pieces through discord.
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Every bad precedent originated as a justifiable measure.
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Harmony makes small things grow; lack of it makes great things decay.
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There were few who preferred honor to money.
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To someone seeking power, the poorest man is the most useful.
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By the wicked the good conduct of others is always dreaded.
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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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Greedy for the property of others, extravagant with his own
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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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Ambition breaks the ties of blood, and forgets the obligations of gratitude.
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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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No mortal man has ever served at the same time his passions and his best interests.
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The glory of riches and of beauty is frail and transitory; virtue remains bright and eternal.
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It is sweet to surve one country by deeds, and it is not absurd to surve her by words.
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