Fortune rules in all things, and advances and depresses things more out of her own will than right and justice.
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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Each man the architect of his own fate.
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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 poorest of men are the most useful to those seeking power.
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In my opinion, he only may be truly said to live and enjoy his being who is engaged in some laudable pursuit, and acquires a name by some illustrious action, or useful art.
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Everything that rises sets, and everything that grows, grows old.
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Among intellectual pursuits, one of the most useful is the recording of past events.
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It is always easy to begin a war, but very difficult to stop one.
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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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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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Just to stir things up seemed a great reward in itself.
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The glory of ancestors sheds a light around posterity; it allows neither good nor bad qualities to remain in obscurity.
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A good man prefers to suffer rather than overcome injustice with evil.
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When the prizes fall to the lot of the wicked, you will not find many who are virtuous for virtue’s sake.
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They envy the distinction I have won; let them therefore, envy my toils, my honesty, and the methods by which I gained it.
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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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