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# In Concord Small States Grow, in Discord the Greatest Fall to Nothing
- URL: https://theparnassian.com/en/pri-soglasii-dazhe-malye-gosudarstva-uvelichivaiutsia-a-pri-razdore-dazhe-velichaishie-prevrashchaiutsia-v-nichto/
- Published: 2024-07-25T10:03:42.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-01T05:33:10.000Z
- Author: Alexandr Radayev
- Tags: Art, Books, Observations, Rome

Sometimes this thought of the ancient Roman historian Gaius Sallust (Concordia parvae res crescunt, discordia maximae dilabuntur) is rendered more literally: **as harmony makes small things grow, so discord brings the great to ruin**.

Illustration: Pieter Birmann, Roman ruins of the Arch of Titus, 1781–90