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.
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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Sovereignty is easily preserved by the very arts by which it was originally created. When, however, energy has given place to indifference, and temperance and justice to passion and arrogance, then as the morals change so changes fortune.
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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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It is sweet to surve one country by deeds, and it is not absurd to surve her by words.
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Do as much as possible, and talk of yourself as little as possible.
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Of the cosmic Gods some make the world be, others animate it, others harmonize it, consisting as it does of different elements; the fourth class keep it when harmonized.
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In battle it is the cowards who run the most risk; bravery is a rampart of defense.
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All who consult on doubtful matters, should be void of hatred, friendship, anger, and pity.
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Just to stir things up seemed a great reward in itself.
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The glory of wealth and of beauty is fleeting and frail; virtue is illustrious and everlasting.
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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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The fame which is based on wealth or beauty is a frail and fleeting thing; but virtue shines for ages with undiminished lustre.
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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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For harmony makes small states great, while discord undermines the mightiest empires.
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Each man the architect of his own fate.
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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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