The man who is roused neither by glory nor by danger it is in vain to exhort; terror closes the ears of the mind.
SALLUSTDo as much as possible, and talk of yourself as little as possible.
More Sallust Quotes
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Sovereignty is easily preserved by the very arts by which it was originally created. When, however, energy has given place to indifference, and temperance and justice to passion and arrogance, then as the morals change so changes fortune.
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A good man prefers to suffer rather than overcome injustice with evil.
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Each man the architect of his own fate.
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Everything destroyed is either resolved into the elements from which it came, or else vanishes into not-being. If things are resolved into the elements from which they came, then there will be others: else how did they come into being at all?
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A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
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Of 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.
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Everything that rises sets, and everything that grows, grows old.
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No grief reaches the dead.
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Harmony makes small things grow; lack of it makes great things decay.
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All who consult on doubtful matters, should be void of hatred, friendship, anger, and pity.
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Neither the army nor the treasury, but friends, are the true supports of the throne; for friends cannot be collected by force of arms, nor purchased with money; they are the offspring of kindness and sincerity.
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To desire the same things and to reject the same things, constitutes true friendship.
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Among intellectual pursuits, one of the most useful is the recording of past events.
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Before you act consider; when you have considered, tis fully time to act.
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It is always easy enough to take up arms, but very difficult to lay them down; the commencement and the termination of war are not necessarily in the same hands; even a coward may begin, but the end comes only when the victors are willing.
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