Ambition breaks the ties of blood, and forgets the obligations of gratitude.
SALLUSTIt is sweet to surve one country by deeds, and it is not absurd to surve her by words.
More Sallust Quotes
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Neither the army nor the treasury, but friends, are the true supports of the throne; for friends cannot be collected by force of arms, nor purchased with money; they are the offspring of kindness and sincerity.
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By union the smallest states thrive. By discord the greatest are destroyed.
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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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Get good counsel before you begin; and when you have decided, act promptly.
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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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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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To desire the same things and to reject the same things, constitutes true friendship.
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To have the same desires and the same aversion is assuredly a firm bond of friendship.
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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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He that will be angry for anything will be angry for nothing.
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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 sweet to surve one country by deeds, and it is not absurd to surve her by words.
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Not by vows nor by womanish prayers is the help of the gods obtained; success comes through vigilance, energy, wise counsel.
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We employ the mind to rule, the body to serve.
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There were few who preferred honor to money.
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