As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.
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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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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By the wicked the good conduct of others is always dreaded.
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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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Advise well before you begin, and when you have maturely considered, then act with promptitude.
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The poorest of men are the most useful to those seeking power.
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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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Fame is the shadow of passion standing in the light.
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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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It is sweet to surve one country by deeds, and it is not absurd to surve her by words.
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It 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.
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Just to stir things up seemed a great reward in itself.
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Do as much as possible, and talk of yourself as little as possible.
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Ambition breaks the ties of blood, and forgets the obligations of gratitude.
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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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