Those most moved to tears by every word of a preacher are generally weak and a rascal when the feelings evaporate.
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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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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The Romans assisted their allies and friends, and acquired friendships by giving rather than receiving kindness.
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Small endeavours obtain strength by unity of action: the most powerful are broken down by discord.
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There were few who preferred honor to money.
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We employ the mind to rule, the body to serve.
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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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All who consult on doubtful matters, should be void of hatred, friendship, anger, and pity.
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The soul is the captain and ruler of the life of morals.
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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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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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Advise well before you begin, and when you have maturely considered, then act with promptitude.
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Sovereignty is easily preserved by the very arts by which it was originally created. When, however, energy has given place to indifference, and temperance and justice to passion and arrogance, then as the morals change so changes fortune.
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The glory of riches and of beauty is frail and transitory; virtue remains bright and eternal.
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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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Everything destroyed is either resolved into the elements from which it came, or else vanishes into not-being. If things are resolved into the elements from which they came, then there will be others: else how did they come into being at all?
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