Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
The renown which riches or beauty confer is fleeting and frail mental excellence is a splendid and lasting possession.
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
Riches
Excellence
Possession
Confer
Mental
Renown
Beauty
Frail
Splendid
Fleeting
Lasting
More quotes by Sallust
Every bad precedent originated as a justifiable measure.
Sallust
Prosperity tries the souls even of the wise.
Sallust
Distinguished ancestors shed a powerful light on their descendants, and forbid the concealment either of their merits or of their demerits.
Sallust
By the wicked the good conduct of others is always dreaded.
Sallust
Fortune rules in all things, and advances and depresses things more out of her own will than right and justice.
Sallust
Sovereignty is easily preserved by the very arts by which it was originally created. When, however, energy has given place to indifference, and temperance and justice to passion and arrogance, then as the morals change so changes fortune.
Sallust
Ambition breaks the ties of blood, and forgets the obligations of gratitude.
Sallust
The very life which we enjoy is short. [Lat., Vita ipsa qua fruimur brevis est.]
Sallust
It is sweet to surve one country by deeds, and it is not absurd to surve her by words.
Sallust
Most honorable are services rendered to the State even if they do not go beyond words, they are not to be despised.
Sallust
To someone seeking power, the poorest man is the most useful.
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
One can ever assume to be what he is not, and to conceal what he is.
Sallust
Of the bodies in the cosmos, some imitate mind and move in orbits some imitate soul and move in a straight line, fire and air upward, earth and water downward.
Sallust
No mortal man has ever served at the same time his passions and his best interests.
Sallust
There were few who preferred honor to money.
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
The Gods being good and making all things, there is no positive evil, it only comes by absence of good just as darkness itself does not exist, but only comes about by absence of light.
Sallust
Among intellectual pursuits, one of the most useful is the recording of past events.
Sallust
When the prizes fall to the lot of the wicked, you will not find many who are virtuous for virtue's sake.
Sallust
