Those most moved to tears by every word of a preacher are generally weak and a rascal when the feelings evaporate.
SALLUSTEverything 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?
More Sallust Quotes
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Enough words, little wisdom.
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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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Greedy for the property of others, extravagant with his own
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The fame which is based on wealth or beauty is a frail and fleeting thing; but virtue shines for ages with undiminished lustre.
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The glory of ancestors sheds a light around posterity; it allows neither good nor bad qualities to remain in obscurity.
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Kings are more prone to mistrust the good than the bad; and they are always afraid of the virtues of others.
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To have the same desires and the same aversion is assuredly a firm bond of friendship.
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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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No man underestimates the wrongs he suffers; many take them more seriously than is right.
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Since we have received everything from the Gods, and it is right to pay the giver some tithe of his gifts, we pay such a tithe of possessions in votive offering, of bodies in gifts of (hair and) adornment, and of life in sacrifices.
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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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A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
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We employ the mind to rule, the body to serve.
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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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Prosperity tries the souls even of the wise.
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Get good counsel before you begin; and when you have decided, act promptly.
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Ambition breaks the ties of blood, and forgets the obligations of gratitude.
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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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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?
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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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Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master.
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All those who offer an opinion on any doubtful point should first clear their minds of every sentiment of dislike, friendship, anger or pity.
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To someone seeking power, the poorest man is the most useful.
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Do as much as possible, and talk of yourself as little as possible.
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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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