To someone seeking power, the poorest man is the most useful.
SALLUSTKings are more prone to mistrust the good than the bad; and they are always afraid of the virtues of others.
More Sallust Quotes
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Of the cosmic Gods some make the world be, others animate it, others harmonize it, consisting as it does of different elements; the fourth class keep it when harmonized.
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But few prize honour more than money.
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By union the smallest states thrive. By discord the greatest are destroyed.
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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 principle.
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Of the bodies in the cosmos, some imitate mind and move in orbits; some imitate soul and move in a straight line, fire and air upward, earth and water downward.
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A good man prefers to suffer rather than overcome injustice with evil.
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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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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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It is always easy enough to take up arms, but very difficult to lay them down; the commencement and the termination of war are not necessarily in the same hands; even a coward may begin, but the end comes only when the victors are willing.
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Do as much as possible, and talk of yourself as little as possible.
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It is always easy to begin a war, but very difficult to stop one.
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Fame is the shadow of passion standing in the light.
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Everything that rises sets, and everything that grows, grows old.
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Just to stir things up seemed a great reward in itself.
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Greedy for the property of others, extravagant with his own
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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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Fortune rules in all things, and advances and depresses things more out of her own will than right and justice.
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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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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.
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The soul is the captain and ruler of the life of morals.
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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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The firmest friendship is based on an identity of likes and dislikes.
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All who consult on doubtful matters, should be void of hatred, friendship, anger, and pity.
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Before you act consider; when you have considered, tis fully time to act.
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Ambition breaks the ties of blood, and forgets the obligations of gratitude.
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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 nature made prone, obedient to their bellies.
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