Sallust Quotes

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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…
• Necessity makes even the timid brave.
• It is sweet to surve one country by deeds, and it is not absurd to surve her by words.
• A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
• Prosperity tries the souls even of the wise.
• Ambition breaks the ties of blood, and forgets the obligations of gratitude.
• The firmest friendship is based on an identity of likes and dislikes.
• It is the nature of ambition to make men liars and cheats, to hide the truth in their breasts, and show, like jugglers, another thing…
• Ambition drove many men to become false; to have one thought locked in the breast, another ready on the tongue.
• He that will be angry for anything will be angry for nothing.
• In battle it is the cowards who run the most risk; bravery is a rampart of defense.
• To like and dislike the same things that is indeed true friendship.
• They envy the distinction I have won; let them therefore, envy my toils, my honesty, and the methods by which I gained it.
• Harmony makes small things grow; lack of it makes great things decay.
• Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master.
• The soul is the captain and ruler of the life of morals.
• By union the smallest states thrive. By discord the greatest are destroyed.
• The fame that goes with wealth and beauty is fleeting and fragile; intellectual superiority is a possession glorious and eternal.
• No mortal man has ever served at the same time his passions and his best interests.
• Among intellectual pursuits, one of the most useful is the recording of past events.

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