Kings are more prone to mistrust the good than the bad; and they are always afraid of the virtues of others.
SALLUSTOne can ever assume to be what he is not, and to conceal what he is.
More Sallust Quotes
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Among intellectual pursuits, one of the most useful is the recording of past events.
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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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It is better to use fair means and fail, than foul and conquer.
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We employ the mind to rule, the body to serve.
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Prosperity tries the souls even of the wise.
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To someone seeking power, the poorest man is the most useful.
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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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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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Each man the architect of his own fate.
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The Romans assisted their allies and friends, and acquired friendships by giving rather than receiving kindness.
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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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The glory of wealth and of beauty is fleeting and frail; virtue is illustrious and everlasting.
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The very life which we enjoy is short.
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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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Fame is the shadow of passion standing in the light.
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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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Deliberate before you begin; but, having carefully done so, execute with vigour.
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Ambition drove many men to become false; to have one thought locked in the breast, another ready on the tongue.
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The higher your station, the less your liberty.
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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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There were few who preferred honor to money.
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The poorest of men are the most useful to those seeking power.
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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.
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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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To like and dislike the same things that is indeed true friendship.
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Since 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.
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