The higher your station, the less your liberty.
SALLUSTNo mortal man has ever served at the same time his passions and his best interests.
More Sallust Quotes
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Everything that rises sets, and everything that grows, grows old.
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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 a law of human nature that in victory even the coward may boast of his prowess, while defeat injures the reputation even of the brave.
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Ambition breaks the ties of blood, and forgets the obligations of gratitude.
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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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Prosperity tries the souls even of the wise.
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Fortune rules in all things, and advances and depresses things more out of her own will than right and justice.
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Deliberate before you begin; but, having carefully done so, execute with vigour.
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Poor Britons, there is some good in them after all – they produced an oyster.
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In victory even the cowardly like to boast, while in adverse times even the brave are discredited.
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Most honorable are services rendered to the State; even if they do not go beyond words, they are not to be despised.
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Necessity makes even the timid brave.
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Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.
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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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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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To like and dislike the same things that is indeed true friendship.
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Do as much as possible, and talk of yourself as little as possible.
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No man underestimates the wrongs he suffers; many take them more seriously than is right.
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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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Everything destroyed is either resolved into the elements from which it came, or else vanishes into not-being. If things are resolved into the elements from which they came, then there will be others: else how did they come into being at all?
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Greedy for the property of others, extravagant with his own
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The glory of riches and of beauty is frail and transitory; virtue remains bright and eternal.
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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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Those most moved to tears by every word of a preacher are generally weak and a rascal when the feelings evaporate.
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The poorest of men are the most useful to those seeking power.
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