Again, if the world is destroyed, it must needs either be destroyed according to nature or against nature. Against nature is impossible,… — Sallust Copy Share Image
Souls that have lived in virtue are in general happy, and when separated from the irrational part of their nature, and made… — Sallust Copy Share Image
One may call the world a myth , in which bodies and things are visible, but souls and minds hidden. Besides, to… — Sallust Copy Share Image
All this care for the world, we must believe, is taken by the Gods without any act of will or labor. As… — Sallust Copy Share Image
Of the cosmic Gods some make the world be, others animate it, others harmonize it, consisting as it does of different elements;… — 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
