A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
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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A good man prefers to suffer rather than overcome injustice with evil.
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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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He that will be angry for anything will be angry for nothing.
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Poor Britons, there is some good in them after all – they produced an oyster.
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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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Since we have received everything from the Gods, and it is right to pay the giver some tithe of his gifts, we pay such a tithe of possessions in votive offering, of bodies in gifts of (hair and) adornment, and of life in sacrifices.
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But assuredly Fortune rules in all things; she raised to eminence or buries in oblivion everything from caprice rather than from well-regulated principle.
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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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The fame that goes with wealth and beauty is fleeting and fragile; intellectual superiority is a possession glorious and eternal.
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Necessity makes even the timid brave.
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Every bad precedent originated as a justifiable measure.
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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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We employ the mind to rule, the body to serve.
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No man underestimates the wrongs he suffers; many take them more seriously than is right.
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Neither the army nor the treasury, but friends, are the true supports of the throne; for friends cannot be collected by force of arms, nor purchased with money; they are the offspring of kindness and sincerity.
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