The higher your station, the less your liberty.
SALLUSTGet good counsel before you begin; and when you have decided, act promptly.
More Sallust Quotes
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Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master.
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But at power or wealth, for the sake of which wars, and all kinds of strife, arise among mankind, we do not aim; we desire only our liberty, which no honorable man relinquishes but with his life.
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All who consult on doubtful matters, should be void of hatred, friendship, anger, and pity.
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All those who offer an opinion on any doubtful point should first clear their minds of every sentiment of dislike, friendship, anger or pity.
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By the wicked the good conduct of others is always dreaded.
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But few prize honour more than money.
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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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But the case has proved that to be true which Appius says in his songs, that each man is the maker of his own fate.
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To like and dislike the same things that is indeed true friendship.
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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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The man who is roused neither by glory nor by danger it is in vain to exhort; terror closes the ears of the mind.
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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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Do as much as possible, and talk of yourself as little as possible.
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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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Necessity makes even the timid brave.
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