Roman - Historian | 86 BC - 34 BC
Harmony makes small things grow, lack of it makes great things decay.
Sallust
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A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
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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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Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master.
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Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought.
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Small communities grow great through harmony, great ones fall to pieces through discord.
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Every bad precedent originated as a justifiable measure.
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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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Every man is the architect of his own fortune.
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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 sets himself some serious work to do, and seeks the credit of a task well and skillfully performed.
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In my opinion, he only may be truly said to live and enjoy his being who is engaged in some laudable pursuit, and acquires a name by some illustrious action, or useful art.
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