Sallust

The higher your station, the less your liberty.

— Sallust

Prosperity tries the souls even of the wise.

— Sallust

We employ the mind to rule, the body to serve.

— Sallust

Each man the architect of his own fate.

— Sallust

Necessity makes even the timid brave.

— Sallust

No grief reaches the dead.

— Sallust

Fame is the shadow of passion standing in the light

— Sallust

But few prize honour more than money.

— Sallust

A good man prefers to suffer rather than overcome injustice with evil.

— Sallust

No man underestimates the wrongs he suffers; many take them more seriously than is right.

— Sallust

In victory even the cowardly like to boast, while in adverse times even the brave are discredited.

— Sallust

A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.

— Sallust

All who consult on doubtful matters, should be void of hatred, friendship, anger, and pity.

— Sallust

It is always easy to begin a war, but very difficult to stop one.

— Sallust

Get good counsel before you begin; and when you have decided, act promptly.

— Sallust

Harmony makes small things grow; lack of it makes great things decay.

— Sallust

Those most moved to tears by every word of a preacher are generally weak and a rascal when the feelings evaporate.

— Sallust

Of the bodies in the cosmos, some imitate mind and move in orbits; some imitate soul and move in a straight line,…

— Sallust

The fame which is based on wealth or beauty is a frail and fleeting thing; but virtue shines for ages with undiminished…

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Kings are more prone to mistrust the good than the bad; and they are always afraid of the virtues of others.

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Most honorable are services rendered to the State; even if they do not go beyond words, they are not to be despised.

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All those who offer an opinion on any doubtful point should first clear their minds of every sentiment of dislike, friendship, anger…

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All men who would surpass the other animals should do their best not to pass through life silently like the beasts whom…

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The Gods being good and making all things, there is no positive evil, it only comes by absence of good; just as…

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The man who is roused neither by glory nor by danger it is in vain to exhort; terror closes the ears of…

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It is not unlikely, too, that the rejection of God is a kind of punishment: we may well believe that those who…

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One may call the world a myth , in which bodies and things are visible, but souls and minds hidden. Besides, to…

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But assuredly Fortune rules in all things; she raised to eminence or buries in oblivion everything from caprice rather than from well-regulated…

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It is the nature of ambition to make men liars and cheats, to hide the truth in their breasts to show, like…

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That power of the Gods which orders for the good things which are not uniform, and which happen contrary to expectation, is…

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It is always easy enough to take up arms, but very difficult to lay them down; the commencement and the termination of…

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The Romans assisted their allies and friends, and acquired friendships by giving rather than receiving kindness. [Lat., Sociis atque amicis auxilia portabant…

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The soul sins therefore because, while aiming at good, it makes mistakes about the good, because it is not primary essence. And…

— Sallust

Now the myths represent the Gods themselves and the goodness of the Gods subject always to the distinction of the speakable and…

— Sallust

All this care for the world, we must believe, is taken by the Gods without any act of will or labor. As…

— Sallust

The essences of the Gods never came into existence (for that which always is never comes into existence; and that exists for…

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Souls that have lived in virtue are in general happy, and when separated from the irrational part of their nature, and made…

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“Men have no right to complain that they are naturally feeble and short-lived, or that it is chance and not merit that…

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There were few who preferred honor to money.

— Sallust

Every man is the architect of his own fortune.

— Sallust