Fame is the shadow of passion standing in the light.
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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Advise well before you begin, and when you have maturely considered, then act with promptitude.
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Necessity makes even the timid brave.
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To someone seeking power, the poorest man is the most useful.
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Before you act consider; when you have considered, tis fully time to act.
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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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Get good counsel before you begin; and when you have decided, act promptly.
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He that will be angry for anything will be angry for nothing.
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The soul is the captain and ruler of the life of morals.
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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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Each man the architect of his own fate.
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In my opinion it is less shameful for a king to be overcome by force of arms than by bribery.
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To have the same desires and the same aversion is assuredly a firm bond of friendship.
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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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Those most moved to tears by every word of a preacher are generally weak and a rascal when the feelings evaporate.
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Deliberate before you begin; but, having carefully done so, execute with vigour.
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