He that will be angry for anything will be angry for nothing.
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 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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Small communities grow great through harmony, great ones fall to pieces through discord.
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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.
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All those who offer an opinion on any doubtful point should first clear their minds of every sentiment of dislike, friendship, anger or pity.
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By union the smallest states thrive. By discord the greatest are destroyed.
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The firmest friendship is based on an identity of likes and dislikes.
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A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
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Poor Britons, there is some good in them after all – they produced an oyster.
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Among intellectual pursuits, one of the most useful is the recording of past events.
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Fame is the shadow of passion standing in the light.
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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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But few prize honour more than money.
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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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In battle it is the cowards who run the most risk; bravery is a rampart of defense.
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Get good counsel before you begin; and when you have decided, act promptly.
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