Every bad precedent originated as a justifiable measure.
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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.
More Sallust Quotes
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In battle it is the cowards who run the most risk; bravery is a rampart of defense.
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Among intellectual pursuits, one of the most useful is the recording of past events.
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For men who had easily endured hardship, danger and difficult uncertainty, leisure and riches, though in some ways desirable, proved burdensome and a source of grief.
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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 hope for safety in flight, when you have turned away from the enemy the arms by which the body is defended, is indeed madness. In battle those who are most afraid are always in most danger; but courage is equivalent to rampart.
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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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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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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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Since we have received everything from the Gods, and it is right to pay the giver some tithe of his gifts, we pay such a tithe of possessions in votive offering, of bodies in gifts of (hair and) adornment, and of life in sacrifices.
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Ambition breaks the ties of blood, and forgets the obligations of gratitude.
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Kings are more prone to mistrust the good than the bad; and they are always afraid of the virtues of others.
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Neither soldiers nor money can defend a king but only friends won by good deeds, merit, and honesty.
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For harmony makes small states great, while discord undermines the mightiest empires.
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