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.
SALLUSTPoor Britons, there is some good in them after all – they produced an oyster.
More Sallust Quotes
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In victory even the cowardly like to boast, while in adverse times even the brave are discredited.
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Among intellectual pursuits, one of the most useful is the recording of past events.
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There were few who preferred honor to money.
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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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It is always easy enough to take up arms, but very difficult to lay them down; the commencement and the termination of war are not necessarily in the same hands; even a coward may begin, but the end comes only when the victors are willing.
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Enough words, little wisdom.
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No mortal man has ever served at the same time his passions and his best interests.
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The higher your station, the less your liberty.
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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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Small endeavours obtain strength by unity of action: the most powerful are broken down by discord.
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Small communities grow great through harmony, great ones fall to pieces through discord.
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It is always easy to begin a war, but very difficult to stop one.
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The very life which we enjoy is short.
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The Romans assisted their allies and friends, and acquired friendships by giving rather than receiving kindness.
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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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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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It is impossible that there should be so much providence in the last details, and none in the first principles. Then the arts of prophecy and of healing, which are part of the cosmos, come of the good providence of the Gods.
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No grief reaches the dead.
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To desire the same things and to reject the same things, constitutes true friendship.
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The fame which is based on wealth or beauty is a frail and fleeting thing; but virtue shines for ages with undiminished lustre.
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Neither the army nor the treasury, but friends, are the true supports of the throne; for friends cannot be collected by force of arms, nor purchased with money; they are the offspring of kindness and sincerity.
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We employ the mind to rule, the body to serve.
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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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To someone seeking power, the poorest man is the most useful.
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For harmony makes small states great, while discord undermines the mightiest empires.
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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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