A good man prefers to suffer rather than overcome injustice with evil.
SALLUSTNo mortal man has ever served at the same time his passions and his best interests.
More Sallust Quotes
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Each man the architect of his own fate.
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By the wicked the good conduct of others is always dreaded.
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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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Advise well before you begin, and when you have maturely considered, then act with promptitude.
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The glory of wealth and of beauty is fleeting and frail; virtue is illustrious and everlasting.
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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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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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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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All persons who are enthusiastic that they should transcend the other animals ought to strive with the utmost effort not to pass through a life of silence, like cattle, which nature has fashioned to be prone and obedient to their stomachs.
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The higher your station, the less your liberty.
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To someone seeking power, the poorest man is the most useful.
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To have the same desires and the same aversion is assuredly a firm bond of friendship.
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Of the bodies in the cosmos, some imitate mind and move in orbits; some imitate soul and move in a straight line, fire and air upward, earth and water downward.
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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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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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