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?
SALLUSTThe glory of ancestors sheds a light around posterity; it allows neither good nor bad qualities to remain in obscurity.
More Sallust Quotes
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No grief reaches the dead.
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The Romans assisted their allies and friends, and acquired friendships by giving rather than receiving kindness.
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Just to stir things up seemed a great reward in itself.
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Everything that rises sets, and everything that grows, grows old.
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The Gods being good and making all things, there is no positive evil, it only comes by absence of good; just as darkness itself does not exist, but only comes about by absence of light.
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The glory of riches and of beauty is frail and transitory; virtue remains bright and eternal.
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But few prize honour more than money.
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The higher your station, the less your liberty.
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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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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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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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But assuredly Fortune rules in all things; she raised to eminence or buries in oblivion everything from caprice rather than from well-regulated principle.
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We employ the mind to rule, the body to serve.
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Of the bodies in the cosmos, some imitate mind and move in orbits; some imitate soul and move in a straight line, fire and air upward, earth and water downward.
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As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.
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