Harmony makes small things grow; lack of it makes great things decay.
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More Sallust Quotes
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The glory of wealth and of beauty is fleeting and frail; virtue is illustrious and everlasting.
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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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Get good counsel before you begin; and when you have decided, act promptly.
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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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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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Kings are more prone to mistrust the good than the bad; and they are always afraid of the virtues of others.
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Just to stir things up seemed a great reward in itself.
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Deliberate before you begin; but, having carefully done so, execute with vigour.
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The glory of riches and of beauty is frail and transitory; virtue remains bright and eternal.
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Each man the architect of his own fate.
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The Gods being good and making all things, there is no positive evil, it only comes by absence of good; just as darkness itself does not exist, but only comes about by absence of light.
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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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All who consult on doubtful matters, should be void of hatred, friendship, anger, and pity.
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The fame that goes with wealth and beauty is fleeting and fragile; intellectual superiority is a possession glorious and eternal.
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For harmony makes small states great, while discord undermines the mightiest empires.
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