In my own case, who have spent my whole life in the practice of virtue, right conduct from habitual has become natural.
SALLUSTSince 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.
More Sallust Quotes
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Greedy for the property of others, extravagant with his own
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The glory of wealth and of beauty is fleeting and frail; virtue is illustrious and everlasting.
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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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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.
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Small endeavours obtain strength by unity of action: the most powerful are broken down by discord.
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Do as much as possible, and talk of yourself as little as possible.
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Small communities grow great through harmony, great ones fall to pieces through discord.
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It is sweet to surve one country by deeds, and it is not absurd to surve her by words.
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To like and dislike the same things that is indeed true friendship.
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He that will be angry for anything will be angry for nothing.
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Everything that rises sets, and everything that grows, grows old.
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Fortune rules in all things, and advances and depresses things more out of her own will than right and justice.
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Ambition breaks the ties of blood, and forgets the obligations of gratitude.
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The firmest friendship is based on an identity of likes and dislikes.
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But few prize honour more than money.
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