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?
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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The glory of riches and of beauty is frail and transitory; virtue remains bright and eternal.
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No man underestimates the wrongs he suffers; many take them more seriously than is right.
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Neither soldiers nor money can defend a king but only friends won by good deeds, merit, and honesty.
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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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To have the same desires and the same aversion is assuredly a firm bond of friendship.
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Harmony makes small things grow; lack of it makes great things decay.
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Not by vows nor by womanish prayers is the help of the gods obtained; success comes through vigilance, energy, wise counsel.
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Poor Britons, there is some good in them after all – they produced an oyster.
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Distinguished ancestors shed a powerful light on their descendants, and forbid the concealment either of their merits or of their demerits.
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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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Before you act consider; when you have considered, tis fully time to act.
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The poorest of men are the most useful to those seeking power.
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The Gods being good and making all things, there is no positive evil, it only comes by absence of good; just as darkness itself does not exist, but only comes about by absence of light.
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Among intellectual pursuits, one of the most useful is the recording of past events.
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Ambition breaks the ties of blood, and forgets the obligations of gratitude.
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