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.
SALLUSTBut few prize honour more than money.
More Sallust Quotes
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No grief reaches the dead.
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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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Distinguished ancestors shed a powerful light on their descendants, and forbid the concealment either of their merits or of their demerits.
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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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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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But few prize honour more than money.
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All persons who are enthusiastic that they should transcend the other animals ought to strive with the utmost effort not to pass through a life of silence, like cattle, which nature has fashioned to be prone and obedient to their stomachs.
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It is sweet to surve one country by deeds, and it is not absurd to surve her by words.
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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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Enough words, little wisdom.
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Ambition drove many men to become false; to have one thought locked in the breast, another ready on the tongue.
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The glory of riches and of beauty is frail and transitory; virtue remains bright and eternal.
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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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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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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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