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Men Quotes by Sallust
- A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
- 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.
- Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master.
- No mortal man has ever served at the same time his passions and his best interests.
- But at power or wealth, for the sake of which wars, and all kinds of strife, arise among mankind, we do not aim; we desire…
- To someone seeking power, the poorest man is the most useful.
- Each man the architect of his own fate.
- All men who would surpass the other animals should do their best not to pass through life silently like the beasts whom nature made prone,…
- No man underestimates the wrongs he suffers; many take them more seriously than is right.
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