It is always easy to begin a war, but very difficult to stop one.
SALLUSTIt 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.
More Sallust Quotes
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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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To like and dislike the same things that is indeed true friendship.
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When the prizes fall to the lot of the wicked, you will not find many who are virtuous for virtue’s sake.
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All those who offer an opinion on any doubtful point should first clear their minds of every sentiment of dislike, friendship, anger or pity.
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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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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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Ambition drove many men to become false; to have one thought locked in the breast, another ready on the tongue.
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Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.
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To have the same desires and the same aversion is assuredly a firm bond of friendship.
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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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The soul is the captain and ruler of the life of morals.
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Just to stir things up seemed a great reward in itself.
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Every bad precedent originated as a justifiable measure.
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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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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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