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.
SALLUSTPoor Britons, there is some good in them after all – they produced an oyster.
More Sallust Quotes
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Of 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.
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Prosperity tries the souls even of the wise.
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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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In battle it is the cowards who run the most risk; bravery is a rampart of defense.
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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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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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Poor Britons, there is some good in them after all – they produced an oyster.
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Those most moved to tears by every word of a preacher are generally weak and a rascal when the feelings evaporate.
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Among intellectual pursuits, one of the most useful is the recording of past events.
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Small endeavours obtain strength by unity of action: the most powerful are broken down by discord.
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Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master.
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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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In my own case, who have spent my whole life in the practice of virtue, right conduct from habitual has become natural.
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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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Do as much as possible, and talk of yourself as little as possible.
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