Necessity makes even the timid brave.
SALLUSTOf 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.
More Sallust Quotes
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Deliberate before you begin; but, having carefully done so, execute with vigour.
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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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Enough words, little wisdom.
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For harmony makes small states great, while discord undermines the mightiest empires.
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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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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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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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Not by vows nor by womanish prayers is the help of the gods obtained; success comes through vigilance, energy, wise counsel.
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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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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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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.
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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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Neither soldiers nor money can defend a king but only friends won by good deeds, merit, and honesty.
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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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