Not by vows nor by womanish prayers is the help of the gods obtained; success comes through vigilance, energy, wise counsel.
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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Greedy for the property of others, extravagant with his own
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By union the smallest states thrive. By discord the greatest are destroyed.
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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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All men who would surpass the other animals should do their best not to pass through life silently like the beasts whom nature made prone, obedient to their bellies.
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We employ the mind to rule, the body to serve.
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It is impossible that there should be so much providence in the last details, and none in the first principles. Then the arts of prophecy and of healing, which are part of the cosmos, come of the good providence of the Gods.
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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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Among intellectual pursuits, one of the most useful is the recording of past events.
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A good man prefers to suffer rather than overcome injustice with evil.
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The glory of ancestors sheds a light around posterity; it allows neither good nor bad qualities to remain in obscurity.
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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 Romans assisted their allies and friends, and acquired friendships by giving rather than receiving kindness.
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One can ever assume to be what he is not, and to conceal what he is.
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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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It is always easy to begin a war, but very difficult to stop one.
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