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?
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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Just to stir things up seemed a great reward in itself.
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Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.
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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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The renown which riches or beauty confer is fleeting and frail mental excellence is a splendid and lasting possession.
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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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The glory of riches and of beauty is frail and transitory; virtue remains bright and eternal.
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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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The firmest friendship is based on an identity of likes and dislikes.
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It is better to use fair means and fail, than foul and conquer.
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Poor Britons, there is some good in them after all – they produced an oyster.
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Small communities grow great through harmony, great ones fall to pieces through discord.
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Do as much as possible, and talk of yourself as little as possible.
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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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Necessity makes even the timid brave.
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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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