133 Quotes by Sallust

The poorest of men are the most useful to those seeking power.

Advise well before you begin, and when you have maturely considered, then act with promptitude.

The glory of ancestors sheds a light around posterity; it allows neither good nor bad qualities to remain in obscurity. [Lat., Majorum gloria posteris lumen est, neque bona neque mala in occulto patitur.]

A good man prefers to suffer rather than overcome injustice with evil.

Get good counsel before you begin; and when you have decided, act promptly.

But at power or wealth, for the sake of which wars, and all kinds of strife, arise among mankind, we do not aim; we desire only our liberty, which no honorable man relinquishes but with his life.

Among intellectual pursuits, one of the most useful is the recording of past events.

The soul is the captain and ruler of the life of morals.

It is the nature of ambition to make men liars and cheats, to hide the truth in their breasts, and show, like jugglers, another thing in their mouths, to cut all friendships and enmities to the measure of their own interest, and to make a good countenance without the help of good will.