But at power or wealth, for the sake of which wars, and all kinds of strife, arise among mankind, we do not aim; we desire only our liberty, which no honorable man relinquishes but with his life.
SALLUSTNecessity makes even the timid brave.
More Sallust Quotes
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A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
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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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In battle it is the cowards who run the most risk; bravery is a rampart of defense.
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Fame is the shadow of passion standing in the light.
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By the wicked the good conduct of others is always dreaded.
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Get good counsel before you begin; and when you have decided, act promptly.
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Those most moved to tears by every word of a preacher are generally weak and a rascal when the feelings evaporate.
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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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Everything destroyed is either resolved into the elements from which it came, or else vanishes into not-being. If things are resolved into the elements from which they came, then there will be others: else how did they come into being at all?
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Most honorable are services rendered to the State; even if they do not go beyond words, they are not to be despised.
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Enough words, little wisdom.
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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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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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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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Ambition drove many men to become false; to have one thought locked in the breast, another ready on the tongue.
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