Everything that rises sets, and everything that grows, grows old.
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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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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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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A good man prefers to suffer rather than overcome injustice with evil.
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It is a law of human nature that in victory even the coward may boast of his prowess, while defeat injures the reputation even of the brave.
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The very life which we enjoy is short.
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Greedy for the property of others, extravagant with his own
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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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To like and dislike the same things that is indeed true friendship.
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There were few who preferred honor to money.
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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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One can ever assume to be what he is not, and to conceal what he is.
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In my opinion it is less shameful for a king to be overcome by force of arms than by bribery.
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Fame is the shadow of passion standing in the light.
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No grief reaches the dead.
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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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