Ambition drove many men to become false; to have one thought locked in the breast, another ready on the tongue.
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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But at power or wealth, for the sake of which wars, and all kinds of strife, arise among mankind, we do not aim; we desire only our liberty, which no honorable man relinquishes but with his life.
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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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Of the cosmic Gods some make the world be, others animate it, others harmonize it, consisting as it does of different elements; the fourth class keep it when harmonized.
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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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Prosperity tries the souls even of the wise.
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Fame is the shadow of passion standing in the light.
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The glory of riches and of beauty is frail and transitory; virtue remains bright and eternal.
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Small communities grow great through harmony, great ones fall to pieces through discord.
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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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The renown which riches or beauty confer is fleeting and frail mental excellence is a splendid and lasting possession.
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To desire the same things and to reject the same things, constitutes true friendship.
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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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The higher your station, the less your liberty.
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To like and dislike the same things that is indeed true friendship.
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When the prizes fall to the lot of the wicked, you will not find many who are virtuous for virtue’s sake.
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