Prosperity tries the souls even of the wise.
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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In victory even the cowardly like to boast, while in adverse times even the brave are discredited.
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By union the smallest states thrive. By discord the greatest are destroyed.
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Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.
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But assuredly Fortune rules in all things; she raised to eminence or buries in oblivion everything from caprice rather than from well-regulated principle.
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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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Small communities grow great through harmony, great ones fall to pieces through discord.
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Enough words, little wisdom.
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Advise well before you begin, and when you have maturely considered, then act with promptitude.
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Before you act consider; when you have considered, tis fully time to act.
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But at power or wealth, for the sake of which wars, and all kinds of strife, arise among mankind, we do not aim; we desire only our liberty, which no honorable man relinquishes but with his life.
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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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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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In battle it is the cowards who run the most risk; bravery is a rampart of defense.
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Ambition breaks the ties of blood, and forgets the obligations of gratitude.
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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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