Greedy for the property of others, extravagant with his own
SALLUSTA good man prefers to suffer rather than overcome injustice with evil.
More Sallust Quotes
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A good man prefers to suffer rather than overcome injustice with evil.
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The glory of wealth and of beauty is fleeting and frail; virtue is illustrious and everlasting.
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By the wicked the good conduct of others is always dreaded.
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Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.
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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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We employ the mind to rule, the body to serve.
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The firmest friendship is based on an identity of likes and dislikes.
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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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Ambition drove many men to become false; to have one thought locked in the breast, another ready on the tongue.
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Fortune rules in all things, and advances and depresses things more out of her own will than right and justice.
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Enough words, little wisdom.
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Prosperity tries the souls even of the wise.
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Small endeavours obtain strength by unity of action: the most powerful are broken down by discord.
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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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Advise well before you begin, and when you have maturely considered, then act with promptitude.
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