Kings are more prone to mistrust the good than the bad; and they are always afraid of the virtues of others.
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.
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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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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.
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There were few who preferred honor to money.
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It is always easy to begin a war, but very difficult to stop one.
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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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Harmony makes small things grow; lack of it makes great things decay.
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By union the smallest states thrive. By discord the greatest are destroyed.
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For harmony makes small states great, while discord undermines the mightiest empires.
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The very life which we enjoy is short.
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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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A good man prefers to suffer rather than overcome injustice with evil.
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All who consult on doubtful matters, should be void of hatred, friendship, anger, and pity.
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Sovereignty is easily preserved by the very arts by which it was originally created. When, however, energy has given place to indifference, and temperance and justice to passion and arrogance, then as the morals change so changes fortune.
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The renown which riches or beauty confer is fleeting and frail mental excellence is a splendid and lasting possession.
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All persons who are enthusiastic that they should transcend the other animals ought to strive with the utmost effort not to pass through a life of silence, like cattle, which nature has fashioned to be prone and obedient to their stomachs.
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