Words matter. These are the best Sallust Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
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.
In battle it is the cowards who run the most risk; bravery is a rampart of defense.
Ambition drove many men to become false; to have one thought locked in the breast, another ready on the tongue.
Harmony makes small things grow, lack of it makes great things decay.
Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought.
Most honorable are services rendered to the State; even if they do not go beyond words, they are not to be despised.
They envy the distinction I have won; let them therefore, envy my toils, my honesty, and the methods by which I gained it.
No mortal man has ever served at the same time his passions and his best interests.
Every bad precedent originated as a justifiable measure.
He only seems to me to live, and to make proper use of life, who sets himself some serious work to do, and seeks the credit of a task well and skillfully performed.
We employ the mind to rule, the body to serve.
In my opinion, he only may be truly said to live and enjoy his being who is engaged in some laudable pursuit, and acquires a name by some illustrious action, or useful art.
The fame that goes with wealth and beauty is fleeting and fragile; intellectual superiority is a possession glorious and eternal.
A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
To like and dislike the same things, this is what makes a solid friendship.
Do as much as possible, and talk of yourself as little as possible.
Neither soldiers nor money can defend a king but only friends won by good deeds, merit, and honesty.
The glory that goes with wealth is fleeting and fragile; virtue is a possession glorious and eternal.
Kings are more prone to mistrust the good than the bad; and they are always afraid of the virtues of others.
Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master.
It is better to use fair means and fail, than foul and conquer.
Every man is the architect of his own fortune.
The firmest friendship is based on an identity of likes and dislikes.
Just to stir things up seemed a great reward in itself.
He that will be angry for anything will be angry for nothing.
