Quotes from Sallust

All our power lies in both mind and body; we employ the mind to rule, the body rather to serve; the one we have in common with the Gods, the other with the brutes.

Ambition drove many men to become false to have one thought locked in the breast, another ready on the tongue.

Before you act consider; when you have considered, tis fully time to act.

By union the smallest states thrive. By discord the greatest are destroyed.

Few men desire liberty: The majority are satisfied with a just master.

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.

He that will be angry for anything will be angry for nothing.

Small communities grow great through harmony, great ones fall to pieces through discord.

The glory that goes with wealth and beauty is fleeting and fragile; virtue is a possession glorious and eternal.

The glory that goes with wealth is fleeting and fragile virtue is a possession glorious and eternal.

The higher your station, the less your liberty.

The renown which riches or beauty confer is fleeting and frail mental excellence is a splendid and lasting possession.

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

Those most moved to tears by every word of a preacher are generally weak and a rascal when the feelings evaporate.

To like and dislike the same things, that is indeed true friendship.

To someone seeking power, the poorest man is the most useful.

We employ the mind to rule, the body to serve.

They envy the distinction I have won; let them, therefore, envy my toils, my honesty, and the methods by which I gained it.

Every man is the architect of his own fortune.

No mortal man has ever served at the same time his passions and his best interests.

Only a few prefer liberty- the majority seek nothing more than fair masters.

If a man is ambitious for power, he can have no better supporters than the poor: They are not worried about their own possessions, since they have none, and whatever will put something in their pockets is right and proper in their eyes." (Jugurthine War 86.3)

Harmony makes small things grow. Lack of it makes big things decay.

Namque pauci libertatem, pars magna iustos dominos volunt. (Few men desire freedom, the greater part desire just masters.)