The very life which we enjoy is short.
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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But few prize honour more than money.
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Sovereignty is easily preserved by the very arts by which it was originally created. When, however, energy has given place to indifference, and temperance and justice to passion and arrogance, then as the morals change so changes fortune.
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The Romans assisted their allies and friends, and acquired friendships by giving rather than receiving kindness.
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By the wicked the good conduct of others is always dreaded.
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Advise well before you begin, and when you have maturely considered, then act with promptitude.
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For harmony makes small states great, while discord undermines the mightiest empires.
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To desire the same things and to reject the same things, constitutes true friendship.
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A good man prefers to suffer rather than overcome injustice with evil.
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Each man the architect of his own fate.
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Get good counsel before you begin; and when you have decided, act promptly.
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He that will be angry for anything will be angry for nothing.
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The soul is the captain and ruler of the life of morals.
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It is better to use fair means and fail, than foul and conquer.
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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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To have the same desires and the same aversion is assuredly a firm bond of friendship.
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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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Harmony makes small things grow; lack of it makes great things decay.
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The fame that goes with wealth and beauty is fleeting and fragile; intellectual superiority is a possession glorious and eternal.
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The glory of riches and of beauty is frail and transitory; virtue remains bright and eternal.
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Deliberate before you begin; but, having carefully done so, execute with vigour.
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Among intellectual pursuits, one of the most useful is the recording of past events.
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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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But assuredly Fortune rules in all things; she raised to eminence or buries in oblivion everything from caprice rather than from well-regulated principle.
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Small communities grow great through harmony, great ones fall to pieces through discord.
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Prosperity tries the souls even of the wise.
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