It is better to use fair means and fail, than foul and conquer.
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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No grief reaches the dead.
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Small endeavours obtain strength by unity of action: the most powerful are broken down by discord.
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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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To like and dislike the same things that is indeed true friendship.
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Each man the architect of his own fate.
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To someone seeking power, the poorest man is the most useful.
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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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The glory of ancestors sheds a light around posterity; it allows neither good nor bad qualities to remain in obscurity.
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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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But few prize honour more than money.
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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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The Romans assisted their allies and friends, and acquired friendships by giving rather than receiving kindness.
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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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In my opinion, he only may be truly said to live and enjoy his being who is engaged in some laudable pursuit, and acquires a name by some illustrious action, or useful art.
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Just to stir things up seemed a great reward in itself.
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