Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
To someone seeking power, the poorest man is the most useful.
Sallust
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Sallust
Ancient Roman Historian
Ancient Roman Military Personnel
Ancient Roman Politician
Poet
Politician
Writer
Gaius Sallustius Crispus
Poorest
Useful
Seeking
Someone
Power
Men
More quotes by Sallust
Before you act consider when you have considered, tis fully time to act.
Sallust
One can ever assume to be what he is not, and to conceal what he is.
Sallust
A small state increases by concord the greatest falls gradually to ruin by dissension.
Sallust
Poor Britons, there is some good in them after all - they produced an oyster.
Sallust
If the transmigration of a soul takes place into a rational being, it simply becomes the soul of that body. But if the soul migrates into a brute beast, it follows the body outside, as a guardian spirit follows a man. For there could never be a rational soul in an irrational being.
Sallust
The Romans assisted their allies and friends, and acquired friendships by giving rather than receiving kindness. [Lat., Sociis atque amicis auxilia portabant Romani, magisque dandis quam accipiundis beneficiis amicitias parabant.]
Sallust
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
If fortune makes a wicked man prosperous and a good man poor, there is no need to wonder. For the wicked regard wealth as everything, the good as nothing. And the good fortune of the bad cannot take away their badness, while virtue alone will be enough for the good.
Sallust
Few men desire liberty most men wish only for a just master.
Sallust
For harmony makes small states great, while discord undermines the mightiest empires.
Sallust
Harmony makes small things grow lack of it makes great things decay.
Sallust
The soul is the captain and ruler of the life of morals.
Sallust
Fame is the shadow of passion standing in the light
Sallust
They envy the distinction I have won let them therefore, envy my toils, my honesty, and the methods by which I gained it.
Sallust
Small endeavours obtain strength by unity of action: the most powerful are broken down by discord.
Sallust
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.
Sallust
Ambition breaks the ties of blood, and forgets the obligations of gratitude.
Sallust
When the prizes fall to the lot of the wicked, you will not find many who are virtuous for virtue's sake.
Sallust
Every bad precedent originated as a justifiable measure.
Sallust
It is impossible that there should be so much providence in the last details, and none in the first principles. Then the arts of prophecy and of healing, which are part of the cosmos, come of the good providence of the Gods.
Sallust
