It is better to use fair means and fail, than foul and conquer.
SALLUSTAmbition breaks the ties of blood, and forgets the obligations of gratitude.
More Sallust Quotes
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There were few who preferred honor to money.
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Enough words, little wisdom.
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By union the smallest states thrive. By discord the greatest are destroyed.
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Greedy for the property of others, extravagant with his own
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Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master.
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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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In my opinion it is less shameful for a king to be overcome by force of arms than by bribery.
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Of the bodies in the cosmos, some imitate mind and move in orbits; some imitate soul and move in a straight line, fire and air upward, earth and water downward.
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Among intellectual pursuits, one of the most useful is the recording of past events.
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Advise well before you begin, and when you have maturely considered, then act with promptitude.
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As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.
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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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But few prize honour more than money.
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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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The glory of riches and of beauty is frail and transitory; virtue remains bright and eternal.
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