In victory even the cowardly like to boast, while in adverse times even the brave are discredited.
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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Ambition breaks the ties of blood, and forgets the obligations of gratitude.
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Everything that rises sets, and everything that grows, grows old.
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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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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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Enough words, little wisdom.
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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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Ambition drove many men to become false; to have one thought locked in the breast, another ready on the tongue.
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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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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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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 soul is the captain and ruler of the life of morals.
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Every bad precedent originated as a justifiable measure.
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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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To desire the same things and to reject the same things, constitutes true friendship.
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It is a law of human nature that in victory even the coward may boast of his prowess, while defeat injures the reputation even of the brave.
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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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The poorest of men are the most useful to those seeking power.
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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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It is sweet to surve one country by deeds, and it is not absurd to surve her by words.
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The glory of wealth and of beauty is fleeting and frail; virtue is illustrious and everlasting.
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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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When the prizes fall to the lot of the wicked, you will not find many who are virtuous for virtue’s sake.
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The Romans assisted their allies and friends, and acquired friendships by giving rather than receiving kindness.
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Among intellectual pursuits, one of the most useful is the recording of past events.
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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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No mortal man has ever served at the same time his passions and his best interests.
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