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.
SALLUSTAmbition drove many men to become false; to have one thought locked in the breast, another ready on the tongue.
More Sallust Quotes
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Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master.
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We employ the mind to rule, the body to serve.
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He that will be angry for anything will be angry for nothing.
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By the wicked the good conduct of others is always dreaded.
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There were few who preferred honor to 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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Each man the architect of his own fate.
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Among intellectual pursuits, one of the most useful is the recording of past events.
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Poor Britons, there is some good in them after all – they produced an oyster.
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In my opinion it is less shameful for a king to be overcome by force of arms than by bribery.
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The soul is the captain and ruler of the life of morals.
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The renown which riches or beauty confer is fleeting and frail mental excellence is a splendid and lasting possession.
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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 man underestimates the wrongs he suffers; many take them more seriously than is right.
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Fame is the shadow of passion standing in the light.
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