Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Before you act consider when you have considered, tis fully time to act.
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
Consider
Action
Time
Caution
Considered
Fully
More quotes by Sallust
The very life which we enjoy is short. [Lat., Vita ipsa qua fruimur brevis est.]
Sallust
That power of the Gods which orders for the good things which are not uniform, and which happen contrary to expectation, is commonly called Fortune, and it is for this reason that the Goddess is especially worshipped in public by cities for every city consists of elements which are not uniform.
Sallust
The glory of wealth and of beauty is fleeting and frail virtue is illustrious and everlasting.
Sallust
Deliberate before you begin but, having carefully done so, execute with vigour.
Sallust
Neither the army nor the treasury, but friends, are the true supports of the throne for friends cannot be collected by force of arms, nor purchased with money they are the offspring of kindness and sincerity.
Sallust
All those who offer an opinion on any doubtful point should first clear their minds of every sentiment of dislike, friendship, anger or pity.
Sallust
A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
Sallust
No one has become immortal by sloth nor has any parent prayed that his children should live forever but rather that they should lead an honorable and upright life. [Lat., Ignavia nemo immortalis factus: neque quisquam parens liberis, uti aeterni forent, optavit magis, uti boni honestique vitam exigerent.]
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
The higher your station, the less your liberty.
Sallust
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.
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
No mortal man has ever served at the same time his passions and his best interests.
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
By the wicked the good conduct of others is always dreaded.
Sallust
Of the cosmic Gods some make the world be, others animate it, others harmonize it, consisting as it does of different elements the fourth class keep it when harmonized.
Sallust
Ambition breaks the ties of blood, and forgets the obligations of gratitude.
Sallust
Prosperity tries the souls even of the wise.
Sallust
Every bad precedent originated as a justifiable measure.
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
