To 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.
SALLUSTIn my opinion it is less shameful for a king to be overcome by force of arms than by bribery.
More Sallust Quotes
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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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There were few who preferred honor to money.
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In battle it is the cowards who run the most risk; bravery is a rampart of defense.
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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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For harmony makes small states great, while discord undermines the mightiest empires.
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All persons who are enthusiastic that they should transcend the other animals ought to strive with the utmost effort not to pass through a life of silence, like cattle, which nature has fashioned to be prone and obedient to their stomachs.
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The soul is the captain and ruler of the life of morals.
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Everything that rises sets, and everything that grows, grows old.
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The fame that goes with wealth and beauty is fleeting and fragile; intellectual superiority is a possession glorious and eternal.
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They envy the distinction I have won; let them therefore, envy my toils, my honesty, and the methods by which I gained it.
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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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By union the smallest states thrive. By discord the greatest are destroyed.
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No man underestimates the wrongs he suffers; many take them more seriously than is right.
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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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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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