We employ the mind to rule, the body to serve.
SALLUSTNecessity makes even the timid brave.
More Sallust Quotes
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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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The soul is the captain and ruler of the life of morals.
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To like and dislike the same things that is indeed true friendship.
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The Gods being good and making all things, there is no positive evil, it only comes by absence of good; just as darkness itself does not exist, but only comes about by absence of light.
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A good man prefers to suffer rather than overcome injustice with evil.
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It is a law of human nature that in victory even the coward may boast of his prowess, while defeat injures the reputation even of the brave.
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There were few who preferred honor to money.
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Small communities grow great through harmony, great ones fall to pieces through discord.
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He that will be angry for anything will be angry for nothing.
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The higher your station, the less your liberty.
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By the wicked the good conduct of others is always dreaded.
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Small endeavours obtain strength by unity of action: the most powerful are broken down by discord.
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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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Ambition breaks the ties of blood, and forgets the obligations of gratitude.
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