One can ever assume to be what he is not, and to conceal what he is.
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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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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Ambition drove many men to become false; to have one thought locked in the breast, another ready on the tongue.
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It is better to use fair means and fail, than foul and conquer.
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Just to stir things up seemed a great reward in itself.
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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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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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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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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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Neither soldiers nor money can defend a king but only friends won by good deeds, merit, and honesty.
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Necessity makes even the timid brave.
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Poor Britons, there is some good in them after all – they produced an oyster.
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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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Harmony makes small things grow; lack of it makes great things decay.
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Ambition breaks the ties of blood, and forgets the obligations of gratitude.
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The soul is the captain and ruler of the life of morals.
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