The glory of wealth and of beauty is fleeting and frail; virtue is illustrious and everlasting. — Sallust Copy Share Image
The glory of riches and of beauty is frail and transitory; virtue remains bright and eternal. [Lat., Divitarum et formae gloria fluxa… — Sallust Copy Share Image
The renown which riches or beauty confer is fleeting and frail mental excellence is a splendid and lasting possession. — 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
