It is always easy to begin a war, but very difficult to stop one.
SALLUSTThe Gods being good and making all things, there is no positive evil, it only comes by absence of good; just as darkness itself does not exist, but only comes about by absence of light.
More Sallust Quotes
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Get good counsel before you begin; and when you have decided, act promptly.
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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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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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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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Deliberate before you begin; but, having carefully done so, execute with vigour.
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But the case has proved that to be true which Appius says in his songs, that each man is the maker of his own fate.
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No man underestimates the wrongs he suffers; many take them more seriously than is right.
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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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No mortal man has ever served at the same time his passions and his best interests.
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It is sweet to surve one country by deeds, and it is not absurd to surve her by words.
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The soul is the captain and ruler of the life of morals.
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Kings are more prone to mistrust the good than the bad; and they are always afraid of the virtues of others.
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Everything that rises sets, and everything that grows, grows old.
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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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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.
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