To like and dislike the same things that is indeed true friendship.
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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To desire the same things and to reject the same things, constitutes true friendship.
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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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The man who is roused neither by glory nor by danger it is in vain to exhort; terror closes the ears of the mind.
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The Romans assisted their allies and friends, and acquired friendships by giving rather than receiving kindness.
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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 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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A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
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The higher your station, the less your liberty.
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Distinguished ancestors shed a powerful light on their descendants, and forbid the concealment either of their merits or of their demerits.
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Fame is the shadow of passion standing in the light.
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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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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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Every bad precedent originated as a justifiable measure.
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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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Small endeavours obtain strength by unity of action: the most powerful are broken down by discord.
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