To desire the same things and to reject the same things, constitutes true friendship.
SALLUSTHarmony makes small things grow; lack of it makes great things decay.
More Sallust Quotes
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But few prize honour more than money.
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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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To like and dislike the same things that is indeed true friendship.
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By the wicked the good conduct of others is always dreaded.
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By union the smallest states thrive. By discord the greatest are destroyed.
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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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There were few who preferred honor to 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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All men who would surpass the other animals should do their best not to pass through life silently like the beasts whom nature made prone, obedient to their bellies.
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Get good counsel before you begin; and when you have decided, act promptly.
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Deliberate before you begin; but, having carefully done so, execute with vigour.
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For harmony makes small states great, while discord undermines the mightiest empires.
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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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It is better to use fair means and fail, than foul and conquer.
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He that will be angry for anything will be angry for nothing.
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The fame that goes with wealth and beauty is fleeting and fragile; intellectual superiority is a possession glorious and eternal.
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No man underestimates the wrongs he suffers; many take them more seriously than is right.
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Before you act consider; when you have considered, tis fully time to act.
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Ambition breaks the ties of blood, and forgets the obligations of gratitude.
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The glory of riches and of beauty is frail and transitory; virtue remains bright and eternal.
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The poorest of men are the most useful to those seeking power.
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Most honorable are services rendered to the State; even if they do not go beyond words, they are not to be despised.
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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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Among intellectual pursuits, one of the most useful is the recording of past events.
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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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