They envy the distinction I have won; let them therefore, envy my toils, my honesty, and the methods by which I gained it.
SALLUSTIt 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.
More Sallust Quotes
-
-
To someone seeking power, the poorest man is the most useful.
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 -
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.
SALLUST -
There were few who preferred honor to money.
SALLUST -
Necessity makes even the timid brave.
SALLUST -
Small communities grow great through harmony, great ones fall to pieces through discord.
SALLUST -
To desire the same things and to reject the same things, constitutes true friendship.
SALLUST -
The man who is roused neither by glory nor by danger it is in vain to exhort; terror closes the ears of the mind.
SALLUST -
No mortal man has ever served at the same time his passions and his best interests.
SALLUST -
Poor Britons, there is some good in them after all – they produced an oyster.
SALLUST -
Most honorable are services rendered to the State; even if they do not go beyond words, they are not to be despised.
SALLUST -
Ambition breaks the ties of blood, and forgets the obligations of gratitude.
SALLUST -
Everything destroyed is either resolved into the elements from which it came, or else vanishes into not-being. If things are resolved into the elements from which they came, then there will be others: else how did they come into being at all?
SALLUST -
Not by vows nor by womanish prayers is the help of the gods obtained; success comes through vigilance, energy, wise counsel.
SALLUST -
Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.
SALLUST