Author: Sallust

Quotes

The fame that goes with wealth and beauty is fleeting and fragile; intellectual superiority is a possession glorious and eternal.

The fame that goes with wealth and beauty is fleeting and fragile; intellectual superiority is a possession glorious and eternal.

- Sallust

A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.

A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.

- Sallust

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.

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.

- Sallust

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.

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

All who consult on doubtful matters, should be void of hatred, friendship, anger, and pity.

All who consult on doubtful matters, should be void of hatred, friendship, anger, and pity.

- Sallust

In battle it is the cowards who run the most risk; bravery is a rampart of defense.

In battle it is the cowards who run the most risk; bravery is a rampart of defense.

- Sallust

Small communities grow great through harmony, great ones fall to pieces through discord.

Small communities grow great through harmony, great ones fall to pieces through discord.

- Sallust

He that will be angry for anything will be angry for nothing.

He that will be angry for anything will be angry for nothing.

- Sallust

Neither soldiers nor money can defend a king but only friends won by good deeds, merit, and honesty.

Neither soldiers nor money can defend a king but only friends won by good deeds, merit, and honesty.

- Sallust

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