No grief reaches the dead.
SALLUSTBut few prize honour more than money.
More Sallust Quotes
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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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Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master.
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A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
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Just to stir things up seemed a great reward in itself.
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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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Advise well before you begin, and when you have maturely considered, then act with promptitude.
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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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All who consult on doubtful matters, should be void of hatred, friendship, anger, and pity.
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It is a law of human nature that in victory even the coward may boast of his prowess, while defeat injures the reputation even of the brave.
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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 glory of ancestors sheds a light around posterity; it allows neither good nor bad qualities to remain in obscurity.
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They envy the distinction I have won; let them therefore, envy my toils, my honesty, and the methods by which I gained it.
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Among intellectual pursuits, one of the most useful is the recording of past events.
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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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When the prizes fall to the lot of the wicked, you will not find many who are virtuous for virtue’s sake.
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