There were few who preferred honor to money.
SALLUSTEnough words, little wisdom.
More Sallust Quotes
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But few prize honour more than money.
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The higher your station, the less your liberty.
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Get good counsel before you begin; and when you have decided, act promptly.
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Fame is the shadow of passion standing in the light.
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For harmony makes small states great, while discord undermines the mightiest empires.
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Small communities grow great through harmony, great ones fall to pieces through discord.
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A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
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As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.
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Do as much as possible, and talk of yourself as little as possible.
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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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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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It is always easy to begin a war, but very difficult to stop one.
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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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It is impossible that there should be so much providence in the last details, and none in the first principles. Then the arts of prophecy and of healing, which are part of the cosmos, come of the good providence of the Gods.
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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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Everything that rises sets, and everything that grows, grows old.
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The fame which is based on wealth or beauty is a frail and fleeting thing; but virtue shines for ages with undiminished lustre.
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To like and dislike the same things that is indeed true friendship.
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The poorest of men are the most useful to those seeking power.
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The glory of riches and of beauty is frail and transitory; virtue remains bright and eternal.
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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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Harmony makes small things grow; lack of it makes great things decay.
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Deliberate before you begin; but, having carefully done so, execute with vigour.
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By the wicked the good conduct of others is always dreaded.
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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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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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