The fame that goes with wealth and beauty is fleeting and fragile; intellectual superiority is a possession glorious and eternal.
SALLUSTHarmony makes small things grow; lack of it makes great things decay.
More Sallust Quotes
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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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The higher your station, the less your liberty.
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Harmony makes small things grow; lack of it makes great things decay.
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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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Ambition drove many men to become false; to have one thought locked in the breast, another ready on the tongue.
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Small communities grow great through harmony, great ones fall to pieces through discord.
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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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Get good counsel before you begin; and when you have decided, act promptly.
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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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Kings are more prone to mistrust the good than the bad; and they are always afraid of the virtues of others.
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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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All who consult on doubtful matters, should be void of hatred, friendship, anger, and pity.
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Do as much as possible, and talk of yourself as little as possible.
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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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For harmony makes small states great, while discord undermines the mightiest empires.
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