It is sweet to surve one country by deeds, and it is not absurd to surve her by words.
SALLUSTIt is sweet to surve one country by deeds, and it is not absurd to surve her by words.
SALLUSTIt 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.
SALLUSTAdvise well before you begin, and when you have maturely considered, then act with promptitude.
SALLUSTOf the bodies in the cosmos, some imitate mind and move in orbits; some imitate soul and move in a straight line, fire and air upward, earth and water downward.
SALLUSTAll men who would surpass the other animals should do their best not to pass through life silently like the beasts whom nature made prone, obedient to their bellies.
SALLUSTThe fame that goes with wealth and beauty is fleeting and fragile; intellectual superiority is a possession glorious and eternal.
SALLUSTIn my own case, who have spent my whole life in the practice of virtue, right conduct from habitual has become natural.
SALLUSTIt is always easy to begin a war, but very difficult to stop one.
SALLUSTBut few prize honour more than money.
SALLUSTHe that will be angry for anything will be angry for nothing.
SALLUSTNeither soldiers nor money can defend a king but only friends won by good deeds, merit, and honesty.
SALLUSTThe very life which we enjoy is short.
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.
SALLUSTHarmony makes small things grow; lack of it makes great things decay.
SALLUSTAmbition drove many men to become false; to have one thought locked in the breast, another ready on the tongue.
SALLUSTIt 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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