If fortune makes a wicked man prosperous and a good man poor, there is no need to wonder. For the wicked regard… — Sallust Copy Share Image
Kings are more prone to mistrust the good than the bad; and they are always afraid of the virtues of others. — Sallust Copy Share Image
When the prizes fall to the lot of the wicked, you will not find many who are virtuous for virtue's sake. — Sallust Copy Share Image
Sovereignty is easily preserved by the very arts by which it was originally created. When, however, energy has given place to indifference,… — Sallust Copy Share Image
In my own case, who have spent my whole life in the practice of virtue, right conduct from habitual has become natural. — Sallust Copy Share Image
The fame which is based on wealth or beauty is a frail and fleeting thing; but virtue shines for ages with undiminished… — Sallust Copy Share Image
It is impossible that there should be so much providence in the last details, and none in the first principles. Then the arts of… — Sallust Copy Share Image
As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases… — Sallust Copy Share Image
The Romans assisted their allies and friends, and acquired friendships by giving rather than receiving kindness. [Lat., Sociis atque amicis auxilia portabant Romani, magisque… — Sallust Copy Share Image
It is not unlikely, too, that the rejection of God is a kind of punishment: we may well believe that those who knew the… — Sallust Copy Share Image
It is not only spirits who punish the evil, the soul brings itself to judgment: and also it is not right for those who… — Sallust Copy Share Image
To hope for safety in flight, when you have turned away from the enemy the arms by which the body is defended, is indeed… — Sallust Copy Share Image
By union the smallest states thrive. By discord the greatest are destroyed. — Sallust Copy Share Image
Ambition drove many men to become false; to have one thought locked in the breast, another ready on the tongue. — Sallust Copy Share Image
