Sovereignty is easily preserved by the very arts by which it was originally created. When, however, energy has given place to indifference, and temperance and justice to passion and arrogance, then as the morals change so changes fortune.
SALLUSTNot by vows nor by womanish prayers is the help of the gods obtained; success comes through vigilance, energy, wise counsel.
More Sallust Quotes
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It is better to use fair means and fail, than foul and conquer.
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Fame is the shadow of passion standing in the light.
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It is always easy to begin a war, but very difficult to stop one.
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In my opinion it is less shameful for a king to be overcome by force of arms than by bribery.
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Small endeavours obtain strength by unity of action: the most powerful are broken down by discord.
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To have the same desires and the same aversion is assuredly a firm bond of friendship.
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But the case has proved that to be true which Appius says in his songs, that each man is the maker of his own fate.
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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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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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Not by vows nor by womanish prayers is the help of the gods obtained; success comes through vigilance, energy, wise counsel.
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No grief reaches the dead.
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In victory even the cowardly like to boast, while in adverse times even the brave are discredited.
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Everything that rises sets, and everything that grows, grows old.
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The Romans assisted their allies and friends, and acquired friendships by giving rather than receiving kindness.
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Small communities grow great through harmony, great ones fall to pieces through discord.
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