It is always easy to begin a war, but very difficult to stop one.
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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One can ever assume to be what he is not, and to conceal what he is.
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Poor Britons, there is some good in them after all – they produced an oyster.
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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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All who consult on doubtful matters, should be void of hatred, friendship, anger, and pity.
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There were few who preferred honor to money.
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It is a law of human nature that in victory even the coward may boast of his prowess, while defeat injures the reputation even of the brave.
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Harmony makes small things grow; lack of it makes great things decay.
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Among intellectual pursuits, one of the most useful is the recording of past events.
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The firmest friendship is based on an identity of likes and dislikes.
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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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Small communities grow great through harmony, great ones fall to pieces through discord.
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Ambition breaks the ties of blood, and forgets the obligations of gratitude.
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We employ the mind to rule, the body to serve.
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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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Neither soldiers nor money can defend a king but only friends won by good deeds, merit, and honesty.
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