The poorest of men are the most useful to those seeking power.
SALLUSTNecessity makes even the timid brave.
More Sallust Quotes
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To like and dislike the same things that is indeed true friendship.
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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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Get good counsel before you begin; and when you have decided, act promptly.
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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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The renown which riches or beauty confer is fleeting and frail mental excellence is a splendid and lasting possession.
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Before you act consider; when you have considered, tis fully time to act.
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By union the smallest states thrive. By discord the greatest are destroyed.
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Poor Britons, there is some good in them after all – they produced an oyster.
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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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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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It is sweet to surve one country by deeds, and it is not absurd to surve her by words.
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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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Necessity makes even the timid brave.
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Each man the architect of his own fate.
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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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