Small endeavours obtain strength by unity of action: the most powerful are broken down by discord.
SALLUSTThe very life which we enjoy is short.
More Sallust Quotes
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Among intellectual pursuits, one of the most useful is the recording of past events.
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Everything that rises sets, and everything that grows, grows old.
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Deliberate before you begin; but, having carefully done so, execute with vigour.
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The poorest of men are the most useful to those seeking power.
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Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master.
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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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All those who offer an opinion on any doubtful point should first clear their minds of every sentiment of dislike, friendship, anger or pity.
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By union the smallest states thrive. By discord the greatest are destroyed.
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There were few who preferred honor to money.
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No grief reaches the dead.
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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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No mortal man has ever served at the same time his passions and his best interests.
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Small communities grow great through harmony, great ones fall to pieces through discord.
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In my own case, who have spent my whole life in the practice of virtue, right conduct from habitual has become natural.
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The glory of riches and of beauty is frail and transitory; virtue remains bright and eternal.
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