Ambition drove many men to become false; to have one thought locked in the breast, another ready on the tongue.
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But few prize honour more than money.
More Sallust Quotes
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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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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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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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Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master.
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Each man the architect of his own fate.
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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.
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Ambition breaks the ties of blood, and forgets the obligations of gratitude.
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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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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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A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
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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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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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For men who had easily endured hardship, danger and difficult uncertainty, leisure and riches, though in some ways desirable, proved burdensome and a source of grief.
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Just to stir things up seemed a great reward in itself.
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It is better to use fair means and fail, than foul and conquer.
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Before you act consider; when you have considered, tis fully time to act.
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