To desire the same things and to reject the same things, constitutes true friendship.
SALLUSTFew men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master.
More Sallust Quotes
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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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Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.
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Everything that rises sets, and everything that grows, grows old.
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Small communities grow great through harmony, great ones fall to pieces through discord.
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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.
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The fame which is based on wealth or beauty is a frail and fleeting thing; but virtue shines for ages with undiminished lustre.
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Every bad precedent originated as a justifiable measure.
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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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It is always easy to begin a war, but very difficult to stop one.
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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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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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In my opinion, he only may be truly said to live and enjoy his being who is engaged in some laudable pursuit, and acquires a name by some illustrious action, or useful art.
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The poorest of men are the most useful to those seeking power.
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Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master.
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One can ever assume to be what he is not, and to conceal what he is.
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