Category - Sallust

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Distinguished ancestors shed a powerful light on their descendants, and forbid the concealment either of their merits or of their demerits.

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

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He only seems to me to live, and to make proper use of life, who sets himself some serious work to do, and seeks the credit of a task well and skillfully performed.

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

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Before you act, consider; when you have considered, tis fully time to act.

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In my own case, who have spent my whole life in the practice of virtue, right conduct from habitual has become natural.

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

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Kings are more prone to mistrust the good than the bad; and they are always afraid of the virtues of others.

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

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

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Every bad precedent originated as a justifiable measure.

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