Every bad precedent originated as a justifiable measure.
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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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 always easy enough to take up arms, but very difficult to lay them down; the commencement and the termination of war are not necessarily in the same hands; even a coward may begin, but the end comes only when the victors are willing.
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Each man the architect of his own fate.
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To have the same desires and the same aversion is assuredly a firm bond of friendship.
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Not by vows nor by womanish prayers is the help of the gods obtained; success comes through vigilance, energy, wise counsel.
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Advise well before you begin, and when you have maturely considered, then act with promptitude.
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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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We employ the mind to rule, the body to serve.
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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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Just to stir things up seemed a great reward in itself.
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It is better to use fair means and fail, than foul and conquer.
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No mortal man has ever served at the same time his passions and his best interests.
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There were few who preferred honor to money.
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Prosperity tries the souls even of the wise.
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