For harmony makes small states great, while discord undermines the mightiest empires.
SALLUSTPoor Britons, there is some good in them after all – they produced an oyster.
More Sallust Quotes
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To like and dislike the same things that is indeed true friendship.
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Advise well before you begin, and when you have maturely considered, then act with promptitude.
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Do as much as possible, and talk of yourself as little as possible.
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Fortune rules in all things, and advances and depresses things more out of her own will than right and justice.
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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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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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Greedy for the property of others, extravagant with his own
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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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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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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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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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Each man the architect of his own fate.
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Before you act consider; when you have considered, tis fully time to act.
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Ambition breaks the ties of blood, and forgets the obligations of gratitude.
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By union the smallest states thrive. By discord the greatest are destroyed.
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