All Sallust Quotes
- As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but… Beginning
- Necessity makes even the timid brave. Brave
- It is sweet to surve one country by deeds, and it is not absurd to surve her by words. Absurd
- A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means. Defeat
- Prosperity tries the souls even of the wise. Prosperity
- Ambition breaks the ties of blood, and forgets the obligations of gratitude. Ambition
- The firmest friendship is based on an identity of likes and dislikes. Based
- It is the nature of ambition to make men liars and cheats, to hide the truth in their breasts, and show, like jugglers, another thing… All
- Ambition drove many men to become false; to have one thought locked in the breast, another ready on the tongue. Ambition
- He that will be angry for anything will be angry for nothing. Anger
- In battle it is the cowards who run the most risk; bravery is a rampart of defense. Battle
- To like and dislike the same things that is indeed true friendship. Dislike
- They envy the distinction I have won; let them therefore, envy my toils, my honesty, and the methods by which I gained it. Distinction
- Harmony makes small things grow; lack of it makes great things decay. Decay
- Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master. Desire
- The soul is the captain and ruler of the life of morals. Captain
- By union the smallest states thrive. By discord the greatest are destroyed. Destroyed
- The fame that goes with wealth and beauty is fleeting and fragile; intellectual superiority is a possession glorious and eternal. Beauty
- No mortal man has ever served at the same time his passions and his best interests. Best
- Among intellectual pursuits, one of the most useful is the recording of past events. Among