The glory of wealth and of beauty is fleeting and frail; virtue is illustrious and everlasting.
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Every bad precedent originated as a justifiable measure.
More Sallust Quotes
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The glory of wealth and of beauty is fleeting and frail; virtue is illustrious and everlasting.
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Get good counsel before you begin; and when you have decided, act promptly.
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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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Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master.
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Kings are more prone to mistrust the good than the bad; and they are always afraid of the virtues of others.
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For harmony makes small states great, while discord undermines the mightiest empires.
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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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Prosperity tries the souls even of the wise.
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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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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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The renown which riches or beauty confer is fleeting and frail mental excellence is a splendid and lasting possession.
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But the case has proved that to be true which Appius says in his songs, that each man is the maker of his own fate.
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One can ever assume to be what he is not, and to conceal what he is.
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