It is not only spirits who punish the evil, the soul brings itself to judgment: and also it is not right for… — Sallust Copy Share Image
Souls are punished when they have gone forth from the body, some wandering among us, some going to hot or cold places… — Sallust Copy Share Image
The Gods being good and making all things, there is no positive evil, it only comes by absence of good; just as… — 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
A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means. — 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