black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

The renown which riches or beauty confer is fleeting and frail mental excellence is a splendid and lasting possession.

Sallust

It is always easy to begin a war, but very difficult to stop one.
SALLUST

Beginning Difficult Easy Oneself Stop
The very life which we enjoy is short.
SALLUST

Enjoyment Life One Liner Short
The soul is the captain and ruler of the life of morals.
SALLUST

Captain Life Moral Rule Soul
Necessity makes even the timid brave.
SALLUST

Brave Circumstance Coward Necessary
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
Do as much as possible, and talk of yourself as little as possible.
SALLUST

Hard Work Modesty Possible Talk Yourself
Small communities grow great through harmony, great ones fall to pieces through discord.
SALLUST

Community Discord Greatness Harmony Oneself Pieces Small
There were few who preferred honor to money.
SALLUST

Honor Money Preference
No man underestimates the wrongs he suffers; many take them more seriously than is right.
SALLUST

Himself Man Right Serious Suffering Wrong
When the prizes fall to the lot of the wicked, you will not find many who are virtuous for virtue’s sake.
SALLUST

Fall Finding Prize Virtue Yourself
In victory even the cowardly like to boast, while in adverse times even the brave are discredited.
SALLUST

Brave Coward Credit Time Victory
Each man the architect of his own fate.
SALLUST

Architect Fate Himself Man
A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
SALLUST

Defeat Goodness Justice Man
Most honorable are services rendered to the State; even if they do not go beyond words, they are not to be despised.
SALLUST

Beyond Despise Honor Service State Word
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.
SALLUST

Body Gift God Pay Possession Received Sacrifice
He that will be angry for anything will be angry for nothing.
SALLUST

Angry Deep Emotion Feeling Himself

The renown which riches or beauty confer is fleeting and frail mental excellence is a splendid and lasting possession.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

The renown which riches or beauty confer is fleeting and frail mental excellence is a splendid and lasting possession.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Sallust Quotes