Poor Britons, there is some good in them after all – they produced an oyster.
SALLUSTNecessity makes even the timid brave.
More Sallust Quotes
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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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Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.
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Enough words, little wisdom.
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He that will be angry for anything will be angry for nothing.
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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.
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Harmony makes small things grow; lack of it makes great things decay.
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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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Distinguished ancestors shed a powerful light on their descendants, and forbid the concealment either of their merits or of their demerits.
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For harmony makes small states great, while discord undermines the mightiest empires.
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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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We employ the mind to rule, the body to serve.
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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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Small communities grow great through harmony, great ones fall to pieces through discord.
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The Romans assisted their allies and friends, and acquired friendships by giving rather than receiving kindness.
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By the wicked the good conduct of others is always dreaded.
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