Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.
SALLUSTEnough words, little wisdom.
More Sallust Quotes
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In my opinion, he only may be truly said to live and enjoy his being who is engaged in some laudable pursuit, and acquires a name by some illustrious action, or useful art.
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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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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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Every bad precedent originated as a justifiable measure.
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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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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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Among intellectual pursuits, one of the most useful is the recording of past events.
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Everything destroyed is either resolved into the elements from which it came, or else vanishes into not-being. If things are resolved into the elements from which they came, then there will be others: else how did they come into being at all?
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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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The glory of ancestors sheds a light around posterity; it allows neither good nor bad qualities to remain in obscurity.
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Greedy for the property of others, extravagant with his own
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It is a law of human nature that in victory even the coward may boast of his prowess, while defeat injures the reputation even of the brave.
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But few prize honour more than money.
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Do as much as possible, and talk of yourself as little as possible.
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Harmony makes small things grow; lack of it makes great things decay.
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