By union the smallest states thrive. By discord the greatest are destroyed.
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More Sallust Quotes
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To hope for safety in flight, when you have turned away from the enemy the arms by which the body is defended, is indeed madness. In battle those who are most afraid are always in most danger; but courage is equivalent to rampart.
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The firmest friendship is based on an identity of likes and dislikes.
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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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But assuredly Fortune rules in all things; she raised to eminence or buries in oblivion everything from caprice rather than from well-regulated principle.
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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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The glory of wealth and of beauty is fleeting and frail; virtue is illustrious and everlasting.
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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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Prosperity tries the souls even of the wise.
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Poor Britons, there is some good in them after all – they produced an oyster.
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A good man prefers to suffer rather than overcome injustice with evil.
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We employ the mind to rule, the body to serve.
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No grief reaches the dead.
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