Small endeavours obtain strength by unity of action: the most powerful are broken down by discord.
SALLUSTEnough words, little wisdom.
More Sallust Quotes
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The man who is roused neither by glory nor by danger it is in vain to exhort; terror closes the ears of the mind.
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When the prizes fall to the lot of the wicked, you will not find many who are virtuous for virtue’s sake.
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For harmony makes small states great, while discord undermines the mightiest empires.
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All persons who are enthusiastic that they should transcend the other animals ought to strive with the utmost effort not to pass through a life of silence, like cattle, which nature has fashioned to be prone and obedient to their stomachs.
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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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Neither soldiers nor money can defend a king but only friends won by good deeds, merit, and honesty.
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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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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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A good man prefers to suffer rather than overcome injustice with evil.
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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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No mortal man has ever served at the same time his passions and his best interests.
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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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The glory of ancestors sheds a light around posterity; it allows neither good nor bad qualities to remain in obscurity.
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Of the cosmic Gods some make the world be, others animate it, others harmonize it, consisting as it does of different elements; the fourth class keep it when harmonized.
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The glory of wealth and of beauty is fleeting and frail; virtue is illustrious and everlasting.
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