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.
SALLUSTThe poorest of men are the most useful to those seeking power.
More Sallust Quotes
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The glory of wealth and of beauty is fleeting and frail; virtue is illustrious and everlasting.
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But at power or wealth, for the sake of which wars, and all kinds of strife, arise among mankind, we do not aim; we desire only our liberty, which no honorable man relinquishes but with his life.
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We employ the mind to rule, the body to serve.
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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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Poor Britons, there is some good in them after all – they produced an oyster.
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In my own case, who have spent my whole life in the practice of virtue, right conduct from habitual has become natural.
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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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No man underestimates the wrongs he suffers; many take them more seriously than is right.
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No grief reaches the dead.
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Small communities grow great through harmony, great ones fall to pieces through discord.
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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.
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For harmony makes small states great, while discord undermines the mightiest empires.
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A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
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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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A good man prefers to suffer rather than overcome injustice with evil.
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