To hope for safety in flight, when you have turned away from the enemy the arms by which the body is defended, is indeed madness. In battle those who are most afraid are always in most danger; but courage is equivalent to rampart.
SALLUSTOf the bodies in the cosmos, some imitate mind and move in orbits; some imitate soul and move in a straight line, fire and air upward, earth and water downward.
More Sallust Quotes
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To like and dislike the same things that is indeed true friendship.
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Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master.
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Enough words, little wisdom.
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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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No mortal man has ever served at the same time his passions and his best interests.
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A good man prefers to suffer rather than overcome injustice with evil.
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Poor Britons, there is some good in them after all – they produced an oyster.
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Advise well before you begin, and when you have maturely considered, then act with promptitude.
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But the case has proved that to be true which Appius says in his songs, that each man is the maker of his own fate.
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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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Neither soldiers nor money can defend a king but only friends won by good deeds, merit, and honesty.
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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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It is always easy to begin a war, but very difficult to stop one.
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No grief reaches the dead.
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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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