By union the smallest states thrive. By discord the greatest are destroyed.
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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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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All men who would surpass the other animals should do their best not to pass through life silently like the beasts whom nature made prone, obedient to their bellies.
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Poor Britons, there is some good in them after all – they produced an oyster.
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Small endeavours obtain strength by unity of action: the most powerful are broken down by discord.
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Enough words, little wisdom.
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Ambition drove many men to become false; to have one thought locked in the breast, another ready on the tongue.
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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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The glory of riches and of beauty is frail and transitory; virtue remains bright and eternal.
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The poorest of men are the most useful to those seeking power.
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A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
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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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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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The Romans assisted their allies and friends, and acquired friendships by giving rather than receiving kindness.
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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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There were few who preferred honor to money.
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