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.
SALLUSTNecessity makes even the timid brave.
More Sallust Quotes
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The man who is roused neither by glory nor by danger it is in vain to exhort; terror closes the ears of the mind.
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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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In my opinion it is less shameful for a king to be overcome by force of arms than by bribery.
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Kings are more prone to mistrust the good than the bad; and they are always afraid of the virtues of others.
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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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We employ the mind to rule, the body to serve.
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Do as much as possible, and talk of yourself as little as possible.
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No man underestimates the wrongs he suffers; many take them more seriously than is right.
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Advise well before you begin, and when you have maturely considered, then act with promptitude.
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By the wicked the good conduct of others is always dreaded.
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Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master.
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Harmony makes small things grow; lack of it makes great things decay.
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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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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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A good man prefers to suffer rather than overcome injustice with evil.
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