The glory of riches and of beauty is frail and transitory; virtue remains bright and eternal.
SALLUSTThe very life which we enjoy is short.
More Sallust Quotes
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The glory of ancestors sheds a light around posterity; it allows neither good nor bad qualities to remain in obscurity.
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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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Fortune rules in all things, and advances and depresses things more out of her own will than right and justice.
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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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It 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.
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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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Before you act consider; when you have considered, tis fully time to act.
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Fame is the shadow of passion standing in the light.
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It is always easy to begin a war, but very difficult to stop one.
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One can ever assume to be what he is not, and to conceal what he is.
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To like and dislike the same things that is indeed true friendship.
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Deliberate before you begin; but, having carefully done so, execute with vigour.
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Small endeavours obtain strength by unity of action: the most powerful are broken down by discord.
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All who consult on doubtful matters, should be void of hatred, friendship, anger, and pity.
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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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