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.
SALLUSTTo like and dislike the same things that is indeed true friendship.
More Sallust Quotes
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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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To have the same desires and the same aversion is assuredly a firm bond of friendship.
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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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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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The glory of riches and of beauty is frail and transitory; virtue remains bright and eternal.
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Advise well before you begin, and when you have maturely considered, then act with promptitude.
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It is impossible that there should be so much providence in the last details, and none in the first principles. Then the arts of prophecy and of healing, which are part of the cosmos, come of the good providence of the Gods.
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Small communities grow great through harmony, great ones fall to pieces through discord.
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Every bad precedent originated as a justifiable measure.
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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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To hope for safety in flight, when you have turned away from the enemy the arms by which the body is defended, is indeed madness. In battle those who are most afraid are always in most danger; but courage is equivalent to rampart.
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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 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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To desire the same things and to reject the same things, constitutes true friendship.
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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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