Sallust Quotes

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• Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master.

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  Men, Political, Wish

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  Harmony makes small things grow; lack of it makes great things decay.

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  Inspirational, Balance And Harmony, Decay

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• To someone seeking power, the poorest man is the most useful.

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  Men, Poorest, Seeking

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• Each man the architect of his own fate.

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  Responsibility, Fate, Men

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• 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 in their mouths, to cut all friendships and enmities to the measure of their own interest, and to make a good countenance without the help of good will.

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  Friendship, Cheating, Liars

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• It is always easy to begin a war, but very difficult to stop one.

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  War, Easy, Difficult

  Sallust, John Carew Rolfe (1931). “Sallust”, Loeb Classical Library

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• Every bad precedent originated as a justifiable measure.

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  Government, Precedent

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• A good man prefers to suffer rather than overcome injustice with evil.

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  Wisdom, Men, Evil

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• Do as much as possible, and talk of yourself as little as possible

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  Littles

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• Greedy for the property of others, extravagant with his own

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  Extravagance, Greedy, Property

  'Catiline' ch. 5

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• Deliberate before you begin; but, having carefully done so, execute with vigour.

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  Done, Deliberate

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• One may call the world a myth , in which bodies and things are visible, but souls and minds hidden. Besides, to wish to teach the whole truth about the Gods to all produces contempt in the foolish, because they cannot understand, and lack of zeal in the good, whereas to conceal the truth by myths prevents the contempt of the foolish, and compels the good to practice philosophy.

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  Philosophy, Practice, Soul

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• Ambition breaks the ties of blood, and forgets the obligations of gratitude.

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  Gratitude, Ambition, Blood

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• Necessity makes even the timid brave.

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  Courage, Bravery, Brave

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• Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.

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  Fall, Decay, Increase

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• Small communities grow great through harmony, great ones fall to pieces through discord.

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  Fall, Community, Society

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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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  Grief, Men, Hardship

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• The soul is the captain and ruler of the life of morals.

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  Soul, Captains, Morality

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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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  Feelings, Tears, Sincerity

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• Ambition drove many men to become false; to have one thought locked in the breast, another ready on the tongue.

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  Ambition, Men, Tongue

  Sallust, John Carew Rolfe (1931). “Sallust”, Loeb Classical Library

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• A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.

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  Inspirational, Character, Mean

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• Advise well before you begin, and when you have maturely considered, then act with promptitude.

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  Advice, Action, Wells

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• One can ever assume to be what he is not, and to conceal what he is.

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  Assuming

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• Everything that rises sets, and everything that grows, grows old.

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  Rose, Grows

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• No mortal man has ever served at the same time his passions and his best interests.

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  Passion, Men, Demise

  Sallust, John Carew Rolfe (1931). “Sallust”, Loeb Classical Library

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