For men who had easily endured hardship, danger and difficult uncertainty, leisure and riches, though in some ways desirable, proved burdensome and a source of grief.
SALLUSTThey envy the distinction I have won; let them therefore, envy my toils, my honesty, and the methods by which I gained it.
More Sallust Quotes
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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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No grief reaches the dead.
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Get good counsel before you begin; and when you have decided, act promptly.
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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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Before you act consider; when you have considered, tis fully time to act.
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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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To have the same desires and the same aversion is assuredly a firm bond of friendship.
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Greedy for the property of others, extravagant with his own
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All who consult on doubtful matters, should be void of hatred, friendship, anger, and pity.
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In battle it is the cowards who run the most risk; bravery is a rampart of defense.
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Most honorable are services rendered to the State; even if they do not go beyond words, they are not to be despised.
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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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It is sweet to surve one country by deeds, and it is not absurd to surve her by words.
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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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Since we have received everything from the Gods, and it is right to pay the giver some tithe of his gifts, we pay such a tithe of possessions in votive offering, of bodies in gifts of (hair and) adornment, and of life in sacrifices.
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