One can ever assume to be what he is not, and to conceal what he is.
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 glory of ancestors sheds a light around posterity; it allows neither good nor bad qualities to remain in obscurity.
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The Romans assisted their allies and friends, and acquired friendships by giving rather than receiving kindness.
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Among intellectual pursuits, one of the most useful is the recording of past events.
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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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Enough words, little wisdom.
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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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The fame which is based on wealth or beauty is a frail and fleeting thing; but virtue shines for ages with undiminished lustre.
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The soul is the captain and ruler of the life of morals.
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Of the bodies in the cosmos, some imitate mind and move in orbits; some imitate soul and move in a straight line, fire and air upward, earth and water downward.
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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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It is sweet to surve one country by deeds, and it is not absurd to surve her by words.
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For harmony makes small states great, while discord undermines the mightiest empires.
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Prosperity tries the souls even of the wise.
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The higher your station, the less your liberty.
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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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