All who consult on doubtful matters, should be void of hatred, friendship, anger, and pity.
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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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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By union the smallest states thrive. By discord the greatest are destroyed.
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Sovereignty is easily preserved by the very arts by which it was originally created. When, however, energy has given place to indifference, and temperance and justice to passion and arrogance, then as the morals change so changes fortune.
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In my own case, who have spent my whole life in the practice of virtue, right conduct from habitual has become natural.
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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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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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Those most moved to tears by every word of a preacher are generally weak and a rascal when the feelings evaporate.
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The Romans assisted their allies and friends, and acquired friendships by giving rather than receiving kindness.
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Prosperity tries the souls even of the wise.
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The firmest friendship is based on an identity of likes and dislikes.
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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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When the prizes fall to the lot of the wicked, you will not find many who are virtuous for virtue’s sake.
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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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Greedy for the property of others, extravagant with his own
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Fame is the shadow of passion standing in the light.
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