It is better to use fair means and fail, than foul and conquer.
SALLUSTNeither soldiers nor money can defend a king but only friends won by good deeds, merit, and honesty.
More Sallust Quotes
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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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Just to stir things up seemed a great reward in itself.
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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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By the wicked the good conduct of others is always dreaded.
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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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Among intellectual pursuits, one of the most useful is the recording of past events.
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The renown which riches or beauty confer is fleeting and frail mental excellence is a splendid and lasting possession.
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Do as much as possible, and talk of yourself as little as possible.
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The firmest friendship is based on an identity of likes and dislikes.
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In my own case, who have spent my whole life in the practice of virtue, right conduct from habitual has become natural.
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Poor Britons, there is some good in them after all – they produced an oyster.
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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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Prosperity tries the souls even of the wise.
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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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A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
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