Among intellectual pursuits, one of the most useful is the recording of past events.
SALLUSTWe employ the mind to rule, the body to serve.
More Sallust Quotes
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To have the same desires and the same aversion is assuredly a firm bond of friendship.
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They envy the distinction I have won; let them therefore, envy my toils, my honesty, and the methods by which I gained it.
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The glory of riches and of beauty is frail and transitory; virtue remains bright and eternal.
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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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Get good counsel before you begin; and when you have decided, act promptly.
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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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The very life which we enjoy is short.
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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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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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Each man the architect of his own fate.
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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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By union the smallest states thrive. By discord the greatest are destroyed.
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The fame which is based on wealth or beauty is a frail and fleeting thing; but virtue shines for ages with undiminished lustre.
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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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He that will be angry for anything will be angry for nothing.
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Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.
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Small endeavours obtain strength by unity of action: the most powerful are broken down by discord.
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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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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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There were few who preferred honor to money.
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To desire the same things and to reject the same things, constitutes true friendship.
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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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A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
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In victory even the cowardly like to boast, while in adverse times even the brave are discredited.
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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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One can ever assume to be what he is not, and to conceal what he is.
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