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Famous quotes by Sallust:

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

"Necessity makes even the timid brave."

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

"To like and dislike the same things, that is indeed true friendship"

"It is the nature of ambition to make men liars and cheats, to hide the truth in their breasts, and show, like jugglers, another thing in their mouths, to cut all friendships and enmities to the measure of their own interest, and to make a good countenance without the help of good will."

"Ambition breaks the ties of blood, and forgets the obligations of gratitude."

"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."

"Every man is the architect of his own fortune."

"The golden age is before us, not behind us."

"Harmony makes small things grow, lack of it makes great things decay."

"A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means."

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

"By union the smallest states thrive. By discord the greatest are destroyed."

"Everything that rises sets, and everything that grows, grows old."

"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."

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

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

"Ambition drove many men to become false; to have one thought locked in the breast, another ready on the tongue."

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

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