Sallust Quotes
"Those most moved to tears by every word of a preacher are generally weak and a rascal when the feelings evaporate."
- Sallust
(Related: Feelings, Tears, Word)
"A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means."
- Sallust
(Related: Defeat, Evil, Injustice, Man)
"All those who offer an opinion on any doubtful point should first clear their minds of every sentiment of dislike, friendship, anger or pity."
- Sallust
(Related: Anger, Friendship, First, Opinion, Pity, Sentiment)
"To like and dislike the same things, this is what makes a solid friendship."
- Sallust
(Related: Friendship)
"Every bad precedent originated as a justifiable measure."
- Sallust
(Related: Measure)
"We employ the mind to rule, the body to serve."
- Sallust
(Related: Body, Mind)
"In my opinion it is less shameful for a king to be overcome by force of arms than by bribery."
- Sallust
(Related: Bribery, Force, Opinion)
"In battle it is the cowards who run the most risk; bravery is a rampart of defense."
- Sallust
(Related: Battle, Bravery, Cowards, Defense, Risk)
"He that will be angry for anything will be angry for nothing."
- Sallust
(Related: Nothing, Will)
"He only seems to me to live, and to make proper use of life, who sets himself some serious work to do, and seeks the credit of a task well and skillfully performed."
- Sallust
(Related: Work, Life, Credit)
"Harmony makes small things grow, lack of it makes great things decay."
- Sallust
(Related: Harmony)
"Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master."
- Sallust
(Related: Men, Desire, Liberty)
"In my own case, who have spent my whole life in the practice of virtue, right conduct from habitual has become natural."
- Sallust
(Related: Life, Virtue, Practice, Right)
"Every man is the architect of his own fortune."
- Sallust
(Related: Fortune, Man)
"It is a law of human nature that in victory even the coward may boast of his prowess, while defeat injures the reputation even of the brave."
- Sallust
(Related: Nature, Victory, Defeat, Human nature, Law, May, Reputation)
"Do as much as possible, and talk of yourself as little as possible."
- Sallust
(Related: Talk)
"Distinguished ancestors shed a powerful light on their descendants, and forbid the concealment either of their merits or of their demerits."
- Sallust
(Related: Light)
"By union the smallest states thrive. By discord the greatest are destroyed."
- Sallust
(Related: states)
"Before you act, consider; when you have considered, tis fully time to act."
- Sallust
(Related: Time, Act)
"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 to decay."
- Sallust
(Related: Health, Beginning, Blessings, End, Fortune)
"Ambition drove many men to become false; to have one thought locked in the breast, another ready on the tongue."
- Sallust
(Related: Men, Thought, Ambition, Tongue)
"Ambition breaks the ties of blood, and forgets the obligations of gratitude."
- Sallust
(Related: Gratitude, Ambition, Blood)
"Everything that rises sets, and everything that grows, grows old."
- Sallust
(Related: Old)
"Small communities grow great through harmony, great ones fall to pieces through discord."
- Sallust
(Related: Harmony)
"They envy the distinction I have won; let them therefore, envy my toils, my honesty, and the methods by which I gained it."
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(Related: Honesty, Envy)
"The higher your station, the less your liberty."
- Sallust
(Related: Liberty)
"The glory that goes with wealth is fleeting and fragile; virtue is a possession glorious and eternal."
- Sallust
(Related: Virtue, Wealth, Glory, Possession)
"In my opinion, he only may be truly said to live and enjoy his being who is engaged in some laudable pursuit, and acquires a name by some illustrious action, or useful art."
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(Related: Art, Action, Being, May, Name, Opinion, Pursuit)
"The fame that goes with wealth and beauty is fleeting and fragile; intellectual superiority is a possession glorious and eternal."
- Sallust
(Related: Beauty, Superiority, Wealth, Fame, Possession)
"Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought."
- Sallust
(Related: Thought, Action, Man)
"No mortal man has ever served at the same time his passions and his best interests."
- Sallust
(Related: Time, Man)
"No man underestimates the wrongs he suffers; many take them more seriously than is right."
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(Related: Man, Right, Wrongs)
"Neither soldiers nor money can defend a king but only friends won by good deeds, merit, and honesty."
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(Related: Money, Honesty, Deeds, Friends, Merit, Soldiers)
"Necessity makes even the timid brave."
- Sallust
(Related: Necessity)
"Most honorable are services rendered to the State; even if they do not go beyond words, they are not to be despised."
- Sallust
(Related: State, Words)
"Kings are more prone to mistrust the good than the bad; and they are always afraid of the virtues of others."
- Sallust
(Related: Kings, Mistrust)
"Just to stir things up seemed a great reward in itself."
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(Related: Reward)
"It is better to use fair means and fail, than foul and conquer."
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"The firmest friendship is based on an identity of likes and dislikes."
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(Related: Friendship, Identity)