Sallust
The firmest friendship is based on an identity of likes and dislikes.Collection: Friendship
The fame that goes with wealth and beauty is fleeting and fragile; intellectual superiority is a possession glorious and eternal.Collection: Beauty
He that will be angry for anything will be angry for nothing.Collection: Anger
Harmony makes small things grow, lack of it makes great things decay.Collection: Peace
All who consult on doubtful matters, should be void of hatred, friendship, anger, and pity.Collection: Anger
Neither soldiers nor money can defend a king but only friends won by good deeds, merit, and honesty.Collection: Money
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.Collection: Health
In battle it is the cowards who run the most risk; bravery is a rampart of defense.Collection: War
All those who offer an opinion on any doubtful point should first clear their minds of every sentiment of dislike, friendship, anger or pity.Collection: Anger
To like and dislike the same things, this is what makes a solid friendship.Collection: Friendship
Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master.Collection: Men
Harmony makes small things grow; lack of it makes great things decay.Collection: Inspirational
Each man the architect of his own fate.Collection: Responsibility
Advise well before you begin, and when you have maturely considered, then act with promptitude.Collection: Advice
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.Collection: Friendship
To someone seeking power, the poorest man is the most useful.Collection: Men
Do as much as possible, and talk of yourself as little as possibleCollection: Littles
Everything that rises sets, and everything that grows, grows old.Collection: Rose
Necessity makes even the timid brave.Collection: Courage
Ambition drove many men to become false; to have one thought locked in the breast, another ready on the tongue.Collection: Ambition
It is always easy to begin a war, but very difficult to stop one.Collection: War
Small communities grow great through harmony, great ones fall to pieces through discord.Collection: Fall
Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.Collection: Fall
Ambition breaks the ties of blood, and forgets the obligations of gratitude.Collection: Gratitude
Deliberate before you begin; but, having carefully done so, execute with vigour.Collection: Done
Those most moved to tears by every word of a preacher are generally weak and a rascal when the feelings evaporate.Collection: Feelings
It is better to use fair means and fail, than foul and conquer.Collection: Mean
No mortal man has ever served at the same time his passions and his best interests.Collection: Passion
A good man prefers to suffer rather than overcome injustice with evil.Collection: Wisdom
For men who had easily endured hardship, danger and difficult uncertainty, leisure and riches, though in some ways desirable, proved burdensome and a source of grief.Collection: Grief
Every bad precedent originated as a justifiable measure.Collection: Government
No grief reaches the dead.Collection: Grief
A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.Collection: Inspirational
We employ the mind to rule, the body to serve.Collection: Mind
One can ever assume to be what he is not, and to conceal what he is.Collection: Assuming
Kings are more prone to mistrust the good than the bad; and they are always afraid of the virtues of others.Collection: Kings
There were few who preferred honor to money.Collection: Money
The fame which is based on wealth or beauty is a frail and fleeting thing; but virtue shines for ages with undiminished lustre.Collection: Beauty
Fame is the shadow of passion standing in the lightCollection: Passion
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.Collection: Law
It is always easy enough to take up arms, but very difficult to lay them down; the commencement and the termination of war are notnecessarily in the same hands; even a coward may begin, but the end comes only when the victors are willing.Collection: War
The higher your station, the less your liberty.Collection: Freedom
No man underestimates the wrongs he suffers; many take them more seriously than is right.Collection: Men
Distinguished ancestors shed a powerful light on their descendants, and forbid the concealment either of their merits or of their demerits.Collection: Powerful
They envy the distinction I have won; let them therefore, envy my toils, my honesty, and the methods by which I gained it.Collection: Inspirational
Greedy for the property of others, extravagant with his ownCollection: Extravagance
In my opinion it is less shameful for a king to be overcome by force of arms than by bribery.Collection: Kings
By the wicked the good conduct of others is always dreaded.Collection: Wicked