Sallust Quotes

To someone seeking power, the poorest man is the most useful.

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

Small endeavours obtain strength by unity of action: the most powerful are broken down by discord.

In victory even the cowardly like to boast, while in adverse times even the brave are discredited.

By the wicked the good conduct of others is always dreaded.

Prosperity tries the souls even of the wise.

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

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

Get good counsel before you begin; and when you have decided, act promptly.

To have the same desires and the same aversion is assuredly a firm bond of friendship.

For men who had easily endured hardship, danger and difficult uncertainty, leisure and riches, though in some ways desirable, proved burdensome and a source of grief.

Of the bodies in the cosmos, some imitate mind and move in orbits; some imitate soul and move in a straight line, fire and air upward, earth and water downward.

A good man prefers to suffer rather than overcome injustice with evil.

Most honorable are services rendered to the State; even if they do not go beyond words, they are not to be despised.

It is sweet to surve one country by deeds, and it is not absurd to surve her by words.

The glory of riches and of beauty is frail and transitory; virtue remains bright and eternal. [Lat., Divitarum et formae gloria fluxa atque fragilis; virtus clara aeternaque habetur.]

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.

But few prize honour more than money.

Among intellectual pursuits, one of the most useful is the recording of past events.

The Gods being good and making all things, there is no positive evil, it only comes by absence of good; just as darkness itself does not exist, but only comes about by absence of light.

To have the same likes and dislikes, therein consists the firmest bond of friendship.

When the prizes fall to the lot of the wicked, you will not find many who are virtuous for virtue's sake.

But at power or wealth, for the sake of which wars, and all kinds of strife, arise among mankind, we do not aim; we desire only our liberty, which no honorable man relinquishes but with his life.

But the case has proved that to be true which Appius says in his songs, that each man is the maker of his own fate.

Enough words, little wisdom. [Lat., Satis eloquentiae sapientiae parum.]

In my own case, who have spent my whole life in the practice of virtue, right conduct from habitual has become natural.

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

Of the cosmic Gods some make the world be, others animate it, others harmonize it, consisting as it does of different elements; the fourth class keep it when harmonized.

The glory of wealth and of beauty is fleeting and frail; virtue is illustrious and everlasting.

Namque pauci libertatem, pars magna iustos dominos volunt.(Few men desire freedom, the greater part desire just masters.)

Only a few prefer liberty- the majority seek nothing more than fair masters.

Harmony makes small things grow. Lack of it makes big things decay.

Get good counsel before you begin: and when you have decided act promptly.

In victory even the cowardly like to boast while in adverse times even the brave are discredited.

Every man is the architect of his own fortune.

To like and dislike the same things this is what makes a solid friendship.

Get good counsel before you begin and when you have decided act promptly.

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

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

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

To like and dislike the same things, this is what makes a solid friendship.