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.
SALLUSTProsperity tries the souls even of the wise.
More Sallust Quotes
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It is better to use fair means and fail, than foul and conquer.
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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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The firmest friendship is based on an identity of likes and dislikes.
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The renown which riches or beauty confer is fleeting and frail mental excellence is a splendid and lasting possession.
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Neither soldiers nor money can defend a king but only friends won by good deeds, merit, and honesty.
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Each man the architect of his own fate.
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Not by vows nor by womanish prayers is the help of the gods obtained; success comes through vigilance, energy, wise counsel.
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No grief reaches the dead.
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Prosperity tries the souls even of the wise.
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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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We employ the mind to rule, the body to serve.
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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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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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Just to stir things up seemed a great reward in itself.
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Harmony makes small things grow; lack of it makes great things decay.
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The Gods being good and making all things, there is no positive evil, it only comes by absence of good; just as darkness itself does not exist, but only comes about by absence of light.
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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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To desire the same things and to reject the same things, constitutes true friendship.
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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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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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Advise well before you begin, and when you have maturely considered, then act with promptitude.
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For harmony makes small states great, while discord undermines the mightiest empires.
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One can ever assume to be what he is not, and to conceal what he is.
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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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Necessity makes even the timid brave.
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The soul is the captain and ruler of the life of morals.
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