Ambition breaks the ties of blood, and forgets the obligations of gratitude.
SALLUSTSmall communities grow great through harmony, great ones fall to pieces through discord.
More Sallust Quotes
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In victory even the cowardly like to boast, while in adverse times even the brave are discredited.
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There were few who preferred honor to money.
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Since we have received everything from the Gods, and it is right to pay the giver some tithe of his gifts, we pay such a tithe of possessions in votive offering, of bodies in gifts of (hair and) adornment, and of life in sacrifices.
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Fortune rules in all things, and advances and depresses things more out of her own will than right and justice.
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Ambition drove many men to become false; to have one thought locked in the breast, another ready on the tongue.
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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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But few prize honour more than money.
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The glory of riches and of beauty is frail and transitory; virtue remains bright and eternal.
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Among intellectual pursuits, one of the most useful is the recording of past events.
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The fame that goes with wealth and beauty is fleeting and fragile; intellectual superiority is a possession glorious and eternal.
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The fame which is based on wealth or beauty is a frail and fleeting thing; but virtue shines for ages with undiminished lustre.
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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.
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By union the smallest states thrive. By discord the greatest are destroyed.
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The glory of wealth and of beauty is fleeting and frail; virtue is illustrious and everlasting.
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Before you act consider; when you have considered, tis fully time to act.
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Necessity makes even the timid brave.
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The Romans assisted their allies and friends, and acquired friendships by giving rather than receiving kindness.
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The very life which we enjoy is short.
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When the prizes fall to the lot of the wicked, you will not find many who are virtuous for virtue’s sake.
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Distinguished ancestors shed a powerful light on their descendants, and forbid the concealment either of their merits or of their demerits.
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All persons who are enthusiastic that they should transcend the other animals ought to strive with the utmost effort not to pass through a life of silence, like cattle, which nature has fashioned to be prone and obedient to their stomachs.
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A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
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Prosperity tries the souls even of the wise.
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It is impossible that there should be so much providence in the last details, and none in the first principles. Then the arts of prophecy and of healing, which are part of the cosmos, come of the good providence of the Gods.
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One can ever assume to be what he is not, and to conceal what he is.
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It is always easy to begin a war, but very difficult to stop one.
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