Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.
SALLUSTBut the case has proved that to be true which Appius says in his songs, that each man is the maker of his own fate.
More Sallust Quotes
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Small communities grow great through harmony, great ones fall to pieces through discord.
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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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One can ever assume to be what he is not, and to conceal what he is.
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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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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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Harmony makes small things grow; lack of it makes great things 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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Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master.
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Prosperity tries the souls even of the wise.
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But few prize honour more than money.
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For harmony makes small states great, while discord undermines the mightiest empires.
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No man underestimates the wrongs he suffers; many take them more seriously than is right.
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The glory of wealth and of beauty is fleeting and frail; virtue is illustrious and everlasting.
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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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