Before you act consider; when you have considered, tis fully time to act.
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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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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The Gods being good and making all things, there is no positive evil, it only comes by absence of good; just as darkness itself does not exist, but only comes about by absence of light.
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No man underestimates the wrongs he suffers; many take them more seriously than is right.
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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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Necessity makes even the timid brave.
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The glory of wealth and of beauty is fleeting and frail; virtue is illustrious and everlasting.
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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.
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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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One can ever assume to be what he is not, and to conceal what he is.
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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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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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Fortune rules in all things, and advances and depresses things more out of her own will than right and justice.
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Fame is the shadow of passion standing in the light.
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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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All men who would surpass the other animals should do their best not to pass through life silently like the beasts whom nature made prone, obedient to their bellies.
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