The glory of wealth and of beauty is fleeting and frail; virtue is illustrious and everlasting.
SALLUSTFor men who had easily endured hardship, danger and difficult uncertainty, leisure and riches, though in some ways desirable, proved burdensome and a source of grief.
More Sallust Quotes
-
-
Sovereignty is easily preserved by the very arts by which it was originally created. When, however, energy has given place to indifference, and temperance and justice to passion and arrogance, then as the morals change so changes fortune.
SALLUST -
Necessity makes even the timid brave.
SALLUST -
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 -
Those most moved to tears by every word of a preacher are generally weak and a rascal when the feelings evaporate.
SALLUST -
Poor Britons, there is some good in them after all – they produced an oyster.
SALLUST -
Greedy for the property of others, extravagant with his own
SALLUST -
The renown which riches or beauty confer is fleeting and frail mental excellence is a splendid and lasting possession.
SALLUST -
The Romans assisted their allies and friends, and acquired friendships by giving rather than receiving kindness.
SALLUST -
To hope for safety in flight, when you have turned away from the enemy the arms by which the body is defended, is indeed madness. In battle those who are most afraid are always in most danger; but courage is equivalent to rampart.
SALLUST -
Not by vows nor by womanish prayers is the help of the gods obtained; success comes through vigilance, energy, wise counsel.
SALLUST -
Advise well before you begin, and when you have maturely considered, then act with promptitude.
SALLUST -
One can ever assume to be what he is not, and to conceal what he is.
SALLUST -
To someone seeking power, the poorest man is the most useful.
SALLUST -
For men who had easily endured hardship, danger and difficult uncertainty, leisure and riches, though in some ways desirable, proved burdensome and a source of grief.
SALLUST -
To desire the same things and to reject the same things, constitutes true friendship.
SALLUST