But few prize honour more than money.
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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Just to stir things up seemed a great reward in itself.
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The renown which riches or beauty confer is fleeting and frail mental excellence is a splendid and lasting possession.
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Fame is the shadow of passion standing in the light.
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Among intellectual pursuits, one of the most useful is the recording of past events.
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Deliberate before you begin; but, having carefully done so, execute with vigour.
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Enough words, little wisdom.
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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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No man underestimates the wrongs he suffers; many take them more seriously than is right.
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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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The firmest friendship is based on an identity of likes and dislikes.
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The glory of wealth and of beauty is fleeting and frail; virtue is illustrious and everlasting.
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The soul is the captain and ruler of the life of morals.
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By union the smallest states thrive. By discord the greatest are destroyed.
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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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Get good counsel before you begin; and when you have decided, act promptly.
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There were few who preferred honor to money.
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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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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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All persons who are enthusiastic that they should transcend the other animals ought to strive with the utmost effort not to pass through a life of silence, like cattle, which nature has fashioned to be prone and obedient to their stomachs.
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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 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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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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To someone seeking power, the poorest man is the most useful.
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He that will be angry for anything will be angry for nothing.
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For harmony makes small states great, while discord undermines the mightiest empires.
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To like and dislike the same things that is indeed true friendship.
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