Enough words, little wisdom.
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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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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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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To desire the same things and to reject the same things, constitutes true friendship.
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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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Poor Britons, there is some good in them after all – they produced an oyster.
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The glory of riches and of beauty is frail and transitory; virtue remains bright and eternal.
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Deliberate before you begin; but, having carefully done so, execute with vigour.
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Neither the army nor the treasury, but friends, are the true supports of the throne; for friends cannot be collected by force of arms, nor purchased with money; they are the offspring of kindness and sincerity.
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Advise well before you begin, and when you have maturely considered, then act with promptitude.
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He that will be angry for anything will be angry for nothing.
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Get good counsel before you begin; and when you have decided, act promptly.
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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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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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The glory of wealth and of beauty is fleeting and frail; virtue is illustrious and everlasting.
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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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