The firmest friendship is based on an identity of likes and dislikes.
SALLUSTThe soul is the captain and ruler of the life of morals.
More Sallust Quotes
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Ambition breaks the ties of blood, and forgets the obligations of gratitude.
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It is better to use fair means and fail, than foul and conquer.
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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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Neither soldiers nor money can defend a king but only friends won by good deeds, merit, and honesty.
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But few prize honour more than money.
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The man who is roused neither by glory nor by danger it is in vain to exhort; terror closes the ears of the mind.
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Those most moved to tears by every word of a preacher are generally weak and a rascal when the feelings evaporate.
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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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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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Deliberate before you begin; but, having carefully done so, execute with vigour.
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By the wicked the good conduct of others is always dreaded.
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To desire the same things and to reject the same things, constitutes true friendship.
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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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One can ever assume to be what he is not, and to conceal what he is.
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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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