By union the smallest states thrive. By discord the greatest are destroyed.
SALLUSTIn battle it is the cowards who run the most risk; bravery is a rampart of defense.
More Sallust Quotes
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Neither soldiers nor money can defend a king but only friends won by good deeds, merit, and honesty.
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In my opinion it is less shameful for a king to be overcome by force of arms than by bribery.
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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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Fame is the shadow of passion standing in the light.
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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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Fortune rules in all things, and advances and depresses things more out of her own will than right and justice.
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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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Get good counsel before you begin; and when you have decided, act promptly.
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The glory of riches and of beauty is frail and transitory; virtue remains bright and eternal.
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But few prize honour more than money.
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The higher your station, the less your liberty.
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Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master.
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To desire the same things and to reject the same things, constitutes true friendship.
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To have the same desires and the same aversion is assuredly a firm bond of friendship.
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No grief reaches the dead.
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