The glory of ancestors sheds a light around posterity; it allows neither good nor bad qualities to remain in obscurity.
SALLUST
Ambition 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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The glory of ancestors sheds a light around posterity; it allows neither good nor bad qualities to remain in obscurity.
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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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The renown which riches or beauty confer is fleeting and frail mental excellence is a splendid and lasting possession.
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Those most moved to tears by every word of a preacher are generally weak and a rascal when the feelings evaporate.
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In victory even the cowardly like to boast, while in adverse times even the brave are discredited.
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The higher your station, the less your liberty.
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Of the bodies in the cosmos, some imitate mind and move in orbits; some imitate soul and move in a straight line, fire and air upward, earth and water downward.
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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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In battle it is the cowards who run the most risk; bravery is a rampart of defense.
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Small endeavours obtain strength by unity of action: the most powerful are broken down by discord.
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Among intellectual pursuits, one of the most useful is the recording of past events.
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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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Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.
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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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Neither soldiers nor money can defend a king but only friends won by good deeds, merit, and honesty.
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