Fame is the shadow of passion standing in the light.
SALLUSTBut assuredly Fortune rules in all things; she raised to eminence or buries in oblivion everything from caprice rather than from well-regulated principle.
More Sallust Quotes
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To hope for safety in flight, when you have turned away from the enemy the arms by which the body is defended, is indeed madness. In battle those who are most afraid are always in most danger; but courage is equivalent to rampart.
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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.
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He that will be angry for anything will be angry for nothing.
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To desire the same things and to reject the same things, constitutes true friendship.
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To someone seeking power, the poorest man is the most useful.
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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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There were few who preferred honor to money.
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For harmony makes small states great, while discord undermines the mightiest empires.
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To like and dislike the same things that is indeed true friendship.
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In victory even the cowardly like to boast, while in adverse times even the brave are discredited.
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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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The soul is the captain and ruler of the life of morals.
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Just to stir things up seemed a great reward in itself.
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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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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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Get good counsel before you begin; and when you have decided, act promptly.
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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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Neither the army nor the treasury, but friends, are the true supports of the throne; for friends cannot be collected by force of arms, nor purchased with money; they are the offspring of kindness and sincerity.
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Greedy for the property of others, extravagant with his own
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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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We employ the mind to rule, the body to serve.
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The higher your station, the less your liberty.
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Everything that rises sets, and everything that grows, grows old.
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All persons who are enthusiastic that they should transcend the other animals ought to strive with the utmost effort not to pass through a life of silence, like cattle, which nature has fashioned to be prone and obedient to their stomachs.
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It is a law of human nature that in victory even the coward may boast of his prowess, while defeat injures the reputation even of the brave.
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In battle it is the cowards who run the most risk; bravery is a rampart of defense.
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