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• We employ the mind to rule, the body to serve.

  Sallust

  Mind, Body

  Sallust (1921). “Sallust”

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• It is better to use fair means and fail, than foul and conquer.

  Sallust

  Mean, Use, Failing

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• Neither soldiers nor money can defend a king but only friends won by good deeds, merit, and honesty.

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  Kings, Honesty, Soldier

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• All those who offer an opinion on any doubtful point should first clear their minds of every sentiment of dislike, friendship, anger or pity.

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  Anger, Mind, Firsts

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• For harmony makes small states great, while discord undermines the mightiest empires.

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  Empires, Harmony, States

  Sallust (1921). “Sallust”

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• The fame that goes with wealth and beauty is fleeting and fragile; intellectual superiority is a possession glorious and eternal.

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  Intellectual, Fleeting, Wealth

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• No one has become immortal by sloth; nor has any parent prayed that his children should live forever; but rather that they should lead an honorable and upright life.
  [Lat., Ignavia nemo immortalis factus: neque quisquam parens liberis, uti aeterni forent, optavit; magis, uti boni honestique vitam exigerent.]

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  Life, Children, Parent

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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.]

  Sallust

  Principles, Oblivion, Fortune

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• Not by vows nor by womanish prayers is the help of the
  gods obtained; success comes through vigilance, energy,
  wise counsel.

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  Success, Wise, Prayer

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• There were few who preferred honor to money.

  Sallust

  Money, Honor

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• No grief reaches the dead.

  Sallust

  Grief

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

  Sallust

  Friendship, Likes And Dislikes, Identity

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• While the body is young and fine, the soul blunders, but as the body grows old it attains its highest power. Again, every good soul uses mind; but no body can produce mind: for how should that which is without mind produce mind? Again, while the soul uses the body as an instrument, it is not in it; just as the engineer is not in his engines (although many engines move without being touched by any one).

  Sallust

  Moving, Soul, Mind

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• The fame which is based on wealth or beauty is a frail and fleeting thing; but virtue shines for ages with undiminished lustre.

  Sallust

  Beauty, Shining, Age

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• It is always easy enough to take up arms, but very difficult to lay them down; the commencement and the termination of war are notnecessarily in the same hands; even a coward may begin, but the end comes only when the victors are willing.

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  War, Hands, May

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• They envy the distinction I have won; let them therefore, envy my toils, my honesty, and the methods by which I gained it.

  Sallust

  Inspirational, Honesty, Envy

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• No man underestimates the wrongs he suffers; many take them more seriously than is right.

  Sallust

  Men, Suffering, Underestimate

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• Prosperity tries the souls even of the wise.

  Sallust

  Wise, Soul, Trying

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

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

  Sallust

  Littles, Enough

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• Fame is the shadow of passion standing in the light

  Sallust

  Passion, Light, Shadow

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• He that will be angry for anything will be angry for nothing.

  Sallust

  Hate, Hatred, Angry

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• The poorest of men are the most useful to those seeking power.

  Sallust

  Wisdom, Men, Politics

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

  Sallust

  Friendship, Desire, Aversion

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• It is a law of human nature that in victory even the coward may boast of his prowess, while defeat injures the reputation even of the brave.

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  Law, Bravery, Victory

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• Get good counsel before you begin; and when you have decided, act promptly.

  Sallust

  Decided

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