“The fame which is based on wealth or beauty is a frail and fleeting thing; but virtue shines for ages with undiminished lustre.”
Gaius Sallustius Crispus
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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.”
Gaius Sallustius Crispus
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“It is better to use fair means and fail, than foul and conquer.”
Gaius Sallustius Crispus
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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 not necessarily in the same hands; even a coward may begin, but the end comes only when the victors are willing.”
Gaius Sallustius Crispus
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“It was his aim to be, rather than to appear, good.”
Gaius Sallustius Crispus
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“Sovereignty is easily preserved by the very arts by which it was originally created. When, however, energy has given place to indifference, and temperance and justice to passion and arrogance, then as the morals change so changes fortune.”
Gaius Sallustius Crispus
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“The firmest friendship is based on an identity of likes and dislikes.”
Gaius Sallustius Crispus
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“Neither the army nor the treasury, but friends, are the true supports of the throne; for friends cannot be collected by force of arms, nor purchased with money; they are the offspring of kindness and sincerity.”
Gaius Sallustius Crispus
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