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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In my opinion, he only may be truly said to live and enjoy his being who is engaged in some laudable pursuit, and acquires a name by some illustrious action, or useful art.
More Sallust Quotes
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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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Poor Britons, there is some good in them after all – they produced an oyster.
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Neither the army nor the treasury, but friends, are the true supports of the throne; for friends cannot be collected by force of arms, nor purchased with money; they are the offspring of kindness and sincerity.
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The man who is roused neither by glory nor by danger it is in vain to exhort; terror closes the ears of the mind.
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Small endeavours obtain strength by unity of action: the most powerful are broken down by discord.
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No man underestimates the wrongs he suffers; many take them more seriously than is right.
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When the prizes fall to the lot of the wicked, you will not find many who are virtuous for virtue’s sake.
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Before you act consider; when you have considered, tis fully time to act.
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Just to stir things up seemed a great reward in itself.
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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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It is impossible that there should be so much providence in the last details, and none in the first principles. Then the arts of prophecy and of healing, which are part of the cosmos, come of the good providence of the Gods.
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Distinguished ancestors shed a powerful light on their descendants, and forbid the concealment either of their merits or of their demerits.
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No mortal man has ever served at the same time his passions and his best interests.
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