Quotes about Sallust

Necessity makes even the timid brave.

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Most honorable are services rendered to the State; even if they do not go beyond...

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Kings are more prone to mistrust the good than the bad; and they are always...

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Just to stir things up seemed a great reward in itself.

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

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It is a law of human nature that in victory even the coward may boast...

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In my own case, who have spent my whole life in the practice of virtue,...

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In my opinion, he only may be truly said to live and enjoy his being...

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In my opinion it is less shameful for a king to be overcome by force...

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In battle it is the cowards who run the most risk; bravery is a rampart...

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

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He only seems to me to live, and to make proper use of life, who...

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