Sallust Quotes

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• In victory even the cowardly like to boast, while in adverse times even the brave are discredited.
• The glory of wealth and of beauty is fleeting and frail; virtue is illustrious and everlasting.
• It is always easy to begin a war, but very difficult to stop one.
• We employ the mind to rule, the body to serve.
• Greedy for the property of others, extravagant with his own
• Kings are more prone to mistrust the good than the bad; and they are always afraid of the virtues of others.
• In my opinion it is less shameful for a king to be overcome by force of arms than by bribery.
• Just to stir things up seemed a great reward in itself.
• No man underestimates the wrongs he suffers; many take them more seriously than is right.
• The glory that goes with wealth is fleeting and fragile; virtue is a possession glorious and eternal.
• Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought.
• Every man is the architect of his own fortune.
• To like and dislike the same things, this is what makes a solid friendship.
• It is better to use fair means and fail, than foul and conquer.
• In my own case, who have spent my whole life in the practice of virtue, right conduct from habitual has become natural.
• Everything that rises sets, and everything that grows, grows old.
• Most honorable are services rendered to the State; even if they do not go beyond words, they are not to be despised.
• Before you act, consider; when you have considered, tis fully time to act.
• He only seems to me to live, and to make proper use of life, who sets himself some serious work to do, and seeks the…

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