Ambition breaks the ties of blood, and forgets the obligations of gratitude.
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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Neither soldiers nor money can defend a king but only friends won by good deeds, merit, and honesty.
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Neither the army nor the treasury, but friends, are the true supports of the throne; for friends cannot be collected by force of arms, nor purchased with money; they are the offspring of kindness and sincerity.
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Advise well before you begin, and when you have maturely considered, then act with promptitude.
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By the wicked the good conduct of others is always dreaded.
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It is always easy enough to take up arms, but very difficult to lay them down; the commencement and the termination of war are not necessarily in the same hands; even a coward may begin, but the end comes only when the victors are willing.
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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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Deliberate before you begin; but, having carefully done so, execute with vigour.
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He that will be angry for anything will be angry for nothing.
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The glory of wealth and of beauty is fleeting and frail; virtue is illustrious and everlasting.
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Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master.
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Get good counsel before you begin; and when you have decided, act promptly.
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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 glory of ancestors sheds a light around posterity; it allows neither good nor bad qualities to remain in obscurity.
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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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To someone seeking power, the poorest man is the most useful.
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