To like and dislike the same things that is indeed true friendship.
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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Enough words, little wisdom.
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Small communities grow great through harmony, great ones fall to pieces through discord.
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Just to stir things up seemed a great reward in itself.
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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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As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.
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He that will be angry for anything will be angry for nothing.
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By the wicked the good conduct of others is always dreaded.
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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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There were few who preferred honor to money.
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Deliberate before you begin; but, having carefully done so, execute with vigour.
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Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.
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No grief reaches the dead.
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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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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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The higher your station, the less your liberty.
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