Among intellectual pursuits, one of the most useful is the recording of past events.
SALLUSTTo 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.
More Sallust Quotes
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There were few who preferred honor to money.
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Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master.
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No man underestimates the wrongs he suffers; many take them more seriously than is right.
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Necessity makes even the timid brave.
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The Gods being good and making all things, there is no positive evil, it only comes by absence of good; just as darkness itself does not exist, but only comes about by absence of light.
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Deliberate before you begin; but, having carefully done so, execute with vigour.
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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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Since we have received everything from the Gods, and it is right to pay the giver some tithe of his gifts, we pay such a tithe of possessions in votive offering, of bodies in gifts of (hair and) adornment, and of life in sacrifices.
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The very life which we enjoy is short.
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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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Greedy for the property of others, extravagant with his own
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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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The firmest friendship is based on an identity of likes and dislikes.
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To someone seeking power, the poorest man is the most useful.
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By union the smallest states thrive. By discord the greatest are destroyed.
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