black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

Advise well before you begin, and when you have maturely considered, then act with promptitude.

Sallust

Small endeavours obtain strength by unity of action: the most powerful are broken down by discord.
SALLUST

Action Break Discord Small Strength Unity
It is always easy to begin a war, but very difficult to stop one.
SALLUST

Beginning Difficult Easy Oneself Stop
The renown which riches or beauty confer is fleeting and frail mental excellence is a splendid and lasting possession.
SALLUST

Beautiful Excellence Mental Possession Rich
In my own case, who have spent my whole life in the practice of virtue, right conduct from habitual has become natural.
SALLUST

Character Life Natural Practice Right Virtue
But assuredly Fortune rules in all things; she raised to eminence or buries in oblivion everything from caprice rather than from well-regulated principle.
SALLUST

Assurance Bury Fate Fortune Principle Raise Rule
The fame that goes with wealth and beauty is fleeting and fragile; intellectual superiority is a possession glorious and eternal.
SALLUST

Beautiful Fame Forever Glory Intellectual Possession Wealth
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

Dangerous Desire Easy Endurance Men Source Way
The firmest friendship is based on an identity of likes and dislikes.
SALLUST

Friendship Identity Nature
No grief reaches the dead.
SALLUST

Death Grief One Liner Reach
Fortune rules in all things, and advances and depresses things more out of her own will than right and justice.
SALLUST

Depression Fortune Justice Rule Willing
Ambition drove many men to become false; to have one thought locked in the breast, another ready on the tongue.
SALLUST

Ambition Drive Fake Lock Man Ready Thinking
Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.
SALLUST

Decay Fall Life Philosophy Rise
No mortal man has ever served at the same time his passions and his best interests.
SALLUST

Best Interest Man Mortal Passion Serve Time
No man underestimates the wrongs he suffers; many take them more seriously than is right.
SALLUST

Himself Man Right Serious Suffering Wrong
For harmony makes small states great, while discord undermines the mightiest empires.
SALLUST

Empire Greatness Harmony Small State
Greedy for the property of others, extravagant with his own
SALLUST

Himself Own Property

Advise well before you begin, and when you have maturely considered, then act with promptitude.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

Advise well before you begin, and when you have maturely considered, then act with promptitude.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Sallust Quotes