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Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought. ↗

— Sallust

#action #like #man #think #thought

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

— Sallust

#defend #friends #good #good deeds #honesty

As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay. ↗

— Sallust

#also #beginning #blessings #decay #end

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

— Sallust

#discord #greatest #smallest #states #thrive

They envy the distinction I have won; let them therefore, envy my toils, my honesty, and the methods by which I gained it. ↗

— Sallust

#envy #gained #honesty #i #methods

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

— Sallust

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

— 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. ↗

— Sallust

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

— Sallust

#bribery #force #in my opinion #king #less

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

— Sallust

#great reward #itself #just #reward #seemed