For men who had easily endured hardship, danger and difficult uncertainty, leisure and riches, though in some ways desirable, proved burdensome and a source of grief.
SALLUSTMost honorable are services rendered to the State; even if they do not go beyond words, they are not to be despised.
More Sallust Quotes
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By the wicked the good conduct of others is always dreaded.
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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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One can ever assume to be what he is not, and to conceal what he is.
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All those who offer an opinion on any doubtful point should first clear their minds of every sentiment of dislike, friendship, anger or pity.
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In my opinion, he only may be truly said to live and enjoy his being who is engaged in some laudable pursuit, and acquires a name by some illustrious action, or useful art.
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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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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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Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.
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To someone seeking power, the poorest man is the most useful.
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The firmest friendship is based on an identity of likes and dislikes.
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The very life which we enjoy is short.
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Deliberate before you begin; but, having carefully done so, execute with vigour.
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Every bad precedent originated as a justifiable measure.
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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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Poor Britons, there is some good in them after all – they produced an oyster.
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