black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

No mortal man has ever served at the same time his passions and his best interests.

Sallust

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
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.
SALLUST

Beginning Blessing Decay Fortune Health
In battle it is the cowards who run the most risk; bravery is a rampart of defense.
SALLUST

Battle Brave Coward Defense Risk Run
Everything that rises sets, and everything that grows, grows old.
SALLUST

Growth Old Rise
It is sweet to surve one country by deeds, and it is not absurd to surve her by words.
SALLUST

Country Herself Madness Sweet Word
To like and dislike the same things that is indeed true friendship.
SALLUST

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

Action Break Discord Small Strength Unity
Among intellectual pursuits, one of the most useful is the recording of past events.
SALLUST

Event Intellectual Past Pursuit
A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
SALLUST

Defeat Goodness Justice Man
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
The glory of ancestors sheds a light around posterity; it allows neither good nor bad qualities to remain in obscurity.
SALLUST

Ancestor Bad Glory Goodness Light Obscurity Quality
To have the same desires and the same aversion is assuredly a firm bond of friendship.
SALLUST

Bond Desire Friendship
Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.
SALLUST

Decay Fall Life Philosophy Rise
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.
SALLUST

Arrogance Art Change Creation Easy Fortune Justice Original Place Preserve
Necessity makes even the timid brave.
SALLUST

Brave Circumstance Coward Necessary
Prosperity tries the souls even of the wise.
SALLUST

Prosperity Soul Try Wisdom

No mortal man has ever served at the same time his passions and his best interests.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

No mortal man has ever served at the same time his passions and his best interests.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Sallust Quotes