The man who is roused neither by glory nor by danger it is in vain to exhort; terror closes the ears of the mind.
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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Poor Britons, there is some good in them after all – they produced an oyster.
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For harmony makes small states great, while discord undermines the mightiest empires.
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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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It is impossible that there should be so much providence in the last details, and none in the first principles. Then the arts of prophecy and of healing, which are part of the cosmos, come of the good providence of the Gods.
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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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In victory even the cowardly like to boast, while in adverse times even the brave are discredited.
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Enough words, little wisdom.
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The firmest friendship is based on an identity of likes and dislikes.
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But the case has proved that to be true which Appius says in his songs, that each man is the maker of his own fate.
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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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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 glory of riches and of beauty is frail and transitory; virtue remains bright and eternal.
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Of the cosmic Gods some make the world be, others animate it, others harmonize it, consisting as it does of different elements; the fourth class keep it when harmonized.
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To like and dislike the same things that is indeed true friendship.
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