KeenBrain
KeenBrain
KeenBrain

Sallust Quotes


Share this page on

Quotes by Sallust

Showing 31-40 of 40 Quotes by Sallust

Just to stir things up seemed a great reward in itself.

~Sallust

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


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

~Sallust

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


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

~Sallust

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


In my own case, who have spent my whole life in the practice of virtue, right conduct from habitual has become natural.

~Sallust

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Everything that rises sets, and everything that grows, grows old.

~Sallust

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Most honorable are services rendered to the State; even if they do not go beyond words, they are not to be despised.

~Sallust

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


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

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


He only seems to me to live, and to make proper use of life, who sets himself some serious work to do, and seeks the credit of a task well and skillfully performed.

~Sallust

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


No man underestimates the wrongs he suffers; many take them more seriously than is right.

~Sallust

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Distinguished ancestors shed a powerful light on their descendants, and forbid the concealment either of their merits or of their demerits.

~Sallust

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Biography

Nationality: Roman

Type: Historian

Born: Unknown

Links

Find Sallust on Amazon

Related Authors

Lord Acton
Henry Adams
Hannah Arendt
Daniel J. Boorstin
Will Durant
Thucydides
Alexis De Tocqueville
Carter G. Woodson

Popular Authors

Kofi Annan Mahatma Gandhi Douglas Macarthur James Madison A. A. Milne Tony Robbins Harriet Tubman Virginia Woolf

Change your beliefs...change your life.

Get a related quote or insight every day.

(it's 100% free)

Follow Us On

Today's Birthdays

1770 - William Wordsworth

1648 - John Sheffield

1718 - Hugh Blair

1772 - Charles Fourier

1775 - Francis Cabot Lowell

1780 - William Ellery Channing

1873 - John Mcgraw

1874 - Frederick Carl Frieseke

1881 - Daisy Ashford

1889 - Gabriela Mistral

Birthdays on April 7th
All Birthdays

Popular Topics

Death Freedom Health Memorial Day Moving On Positive Space Success