Sallust Quotes

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

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  Men, Political, Wish

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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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• 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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• Each man the architect of his own fate.

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  Responsibility, Fate, Men

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• Every bad precedent originated as a justifiable measure.

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  Government, Precedent

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

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  Gratitude, Ambition, Blood

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

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  Wisdom, Men, Evil

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• Necessity makes even the timid brave.

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  Courage, Bravery, Brave

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

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  Fall, Community, Society

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

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  Fall, Decay, Increase

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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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• To have the same desires and the same aversion is assuredly a firm bond of friendship.

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  Friendship, Desire, Aversion

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• Enough words, little wisdom.
  [Lat., Satis eloquentiae sapientiae parum.]

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  Littles, Enough

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• The firmest friendship is based on an identity of likes and dislikes.

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  Friendship, Likes And Dislikes, Identity

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• But assuredly Fortune rules in all things; she raised to eminence or buries in oblivion everything from caprice rather than from well-regulated principle.
  [Lat., Sed profecto Fortuna in omni re dominatur; ea res cunctas ex lubidine magis, quam ex vero, celebrat, obscuratque.]

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  Principles, Oblivion, Fortune

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