The glory of riches and of beauty is frail and transitory; virtue remains bright and eternal.
SALLUSTEnough words, little wisdom.
More Sallust Quotes
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Enough words, little wisdom.
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One can ever assume to be what he is not, and to conceal what he is.
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To someone seeking power, the poorest man is the most useful.
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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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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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But few prize honour more than money.
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In my own case, who have spent my whole life in the practice of virtue, right conduct from habitual has become natural.
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Ambition breaks the ties of blood, and forgets the obligations of gratitude.
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They envy the distinction I have won; let them therefore, envy my toils, my honesty, and the methods by which I gained it.
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The higher your station, the less your liberty.
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All men who would surpass the other animals should do their best not to pass through life silently like the beasts whom nature made prone, obedient to their bellies.
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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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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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Fortune rules in all things, and advances and depresses things more out of her own will than right and justice.
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Greedy for the property of others, extravagant with his own
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